I have been quiet so long because I hoped that the intercession of the women would have saved them.

As that has failed I must set to work.

I have thought of every method, but bribery seems the only chance.
Will you speak to the man you know in the prison, and sound him whether it will be possible to carry out any plan in that way ?" "I will speak again to him," Adolphe said.

"But I have already sounded him, and he said that there were so many guards and jailers that he feared that it would be impossible.

But I will try again." The next day, soon after dinner, Adolphe came again, and there was a white scared look upon his face which filled Harry with alarm.
"What is it, Adolphe?
What is your news ?" "Monsieur, I can hardly tell it," Adolphe said in a low awe-stricken voice.