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'Well,' cried the other, uneasily flinging the end of his cloak over his

shoulder with an oath, 'let them do their worst!'

'Truly I think they will,' murmured John Baptist to himself, as he bent

his head to put his knife in his sash

Nothing

to and fro, and necessarily crossed at every turn Monsieur Rigaud

so to put his case in a new light,

orto

go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes

turned doard, nothing cas

By-and-by the noise of the key in the lock arrested them both The sound

of voices succeeded, and the tread of feet The door clashed, the voices

and the feet came on, and the prison-keeper slowly ascended the stairs,

followed by a guard of soldiers

'Now, Monsieur Rigaud,' said he, pausing for a oodness to come out'

'I am to depart in state, I see?' 'Why, unless you did,' returned the