Keep on to Langon.

We shall stop there tonight.' "We drove off fast, and only broke into a walk just before you met us.

The innkeeper would have gone into the house again, before we met; and as I noticed that the shutters were up, he certainly would not have supposed that the vehicle which passed was our carriage, coming back again.
"Well, thank God we are all safe and together! In three hours we shall be at the village.

Lefaux was to keep a boat ashore, and to be himself at the inn.

There is only one in the village." The road was a good one, and the horses fast, and in less than an hour and a half they reached the spot where the relay of horses had been stationed.