You will overtake them beyond Lagny, at Coupvrai, where they expected to be at daybreak.

They are disguised as sailors, and will enter Paris by the river on some vessel.

This," she added, taking half of her mother's wedding-ring from her finger, "is the only thing which will make them trust you; they have the other half.

The keeper of Couvrai is the father of one of their soldiers; he has hidden them tonight in a hut in the forest deserted by charcoal-burners.

They are eight in all, Messieurs d'Hauteserre and four others are with my cousins." "Mademoiselle, no one is looking for the others! let them save themselves as they can; we must think only of the Messieurs de Simeuse.
It is enough just to warn the rest." "What! abandon the Hauteserres?
never!" she said.