The paper had been bought, the message had reached the house, Mlle.

Celie was no longer of any use, and every hour she stayed in that house was of course an hour of danger to her captors." "What were they going to do ?" asked Ricardo.
Hanaud shrugged his shoulders.
"It is not pretty--what they were going to do.

We reach the garden in our launch.

At that moment Hippolyte and Adele, who is most likely Hippolyte's wife, are in the lighted parlour on the basement floor.
Adele is preparing her morphia-needle.

Hippolyte is going to get ready the rowing-boat which was tied at the end of the landing-stage.