I turned my eyes back to the girl's face, questioningly, barely able to perceive its whiteness.
"They have a guard there," I whispered, my lips close to her ear.

"Is there no other way out ?" "Yes, on foot, but I supposed you would need a horse." "And there are horses there ?" "I do not know about any others; I understand the judge has lost all his, but the one Captain Le Gaire left for you this morning was taken there." "You know the situation,"-- the cavalryman's eagerness for a mount overcoming all thought of danger,--"how best to get in." "Yes; I went out there with Tom when the judge told him to put up the horse,--I wanted to see how my pony was getting along.

The door is on that side to the east, just around the corner.

It is closed by a wooden button.

The pony is in the first stall, and the horse in the second; the saddle and bridle were hung on a peg behind," she said this clearly, anxious to make me understand, but then, as the other thought came to her, her voice broke.