But he was not sufficiently accustomed to laying out a route for himself, and when he thought he had a league farther to go, and had just leaped over an intervening hedge, the pointed roofs of the chateau appeared before him at a distance of not more than a hundred feet, and at one of the windows on the first floor he could distinguish Claudet, leaning for ward, as if to interrogate him.
He remembered then the promise he had made the young huntsman; and faithful to his word, although with rage and bitterness in his heart, he raised his hat, and with effort, waved it three times above his head.
At this signal, the forerunner of good news, Claudet replied by a triumphant shout, and disappeared from the window.

A moment later, Julien heard the noise of furious galloping down the enclosures of the park.

It was the lover, hastening to learn the particulars of the interview..