The first boats will go to the ship lying lowest in the stream; then they will come back and take the next batch out to the vessel next above; and so until all are on board.

There will be fifty placed on board each lugger; and I hear, monsieur, that is only the first of it, and that the drownings will go on until the prisons are cleared." "Thank God we know that much, Adolphe! Now, in the first place, I want you to get me some tools--a sharp saw, a chisel, a large screw-driver, and half a dozen large screws; also, two beams of wood to fasten across the hatchway and keep the boards up after I have sawn through them; also, I want three bundles of cork--flat pieces will be the best if you can get them, but that doesn't matter much.

I may as well have an auger too.

When you go back to your house will you go in next door and ask our landlady, Mere Leflo--" "She died three days ago," the man said.
"Then go into the house without asking, and in the farthest corner to the right-hand side of the kitchen scratch away the earth, and you will find a little bag of money.

If I fail to-morrow, keep it for yourself; if I succeed, bring it to me at Pierre's.