In an hour numbers of men began to make their way past them.

One of them halted.

He was one of Jean's tenants.
"Ah! madame," he said, as he recognized her--for it was now broad daylight--"I fear that all is lost.

You had best ride at once.

The Blues will not come just yet, for la Rochejaquelein, with four or five hundred of his best followers, will hold the place till the last, so as to give us time to get away." "Did you see my husband, Leroux ?" "He was with the general, madame.