Her grin had betrayed her.

She was of the dregs.

But Helene Vauquier whispered: "Keep still, mademoiselle.

I shall help you." Vauquier carried the girl into the recess and placed her upon the stool.

With a long cord Adele bound her by the arms and the waist to the pillar, and her ankles she fastened to the rung of the stool, so that they could not touch the ground.
"Thus we shall be sure that when we hear rapping it will be the spirits, and not the heels, which rap," she said.