I have good news for you.
Monsieur le Baron and mademoiselle are on their way to Pointdexter, under the guard of your men." "Is it possible, Desmond, or are you only saying it to rouse me ?" "Not at all, Philip.

You do not suppose that, even for that purpose, I would hold out false hopes to you; or tell an untruth on a matter so vital to your happiness." Philip's eyes closed, but his lips moved, and Desmond knew that he was returning thanks to God for this unlooked-for news.
"How did it happen ?" Philip said, after a silence of some minutes.
His voice was much stronger than before, and there was a faint touch of colour in his cheeks.

The surgeon nodded approvingly to Desmond, and murmured, "I think that he will live." "It is too long a story to tell you in full, now," Desmond said.
"Seeing that all was lost, that you were down, and that further resistance was absolutely fruitless, Mike and I cut our way out; the more easily since I had struck down their leader, de Tulle, and most of his band had crowded round him.

At Roanne I found your men, who had just arrived there.

It matters not now why they had been detained.