The head cellarman had gone round the place with him and his master, and Leigh at once went to him.
"Lefranc," he said, "your master and mistress have just been arrested.

Two commissaries and six armed men have gone into the house.

There is time to save them yet.

They have a carriage in waiting, a short distance away; and if we can overpower these men and tie them up, so that they cannot give the alarm until morning, Monsieur Flambard and his wife will get safely away.

They have a vessel waiting for them in readiness, down the river." "I am your man, sir, and every one here." "Half a dozen will be enough.