Marie Arrested On leaving Victor in the care of the man who had so providentially came to his aid, Harry hurried down the street towards the Abbaye, then he stopped to think--should he return there or make his way to the Bicetre.

He could not tell whether his friends had, like the Duc de Gisons, been removed to the Abbaye.

If they had been so, it was clearly impossible for him to aid them in any way.

They might already have fallen.

The crowd was too great for him to regain the gallery, and even there could only witness, without power to avert, their murder.