A PRISONER
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"Can such things be possible?"
"There is no limit to man's cruelty to man, child; we can use this window trick for our end. I can tell you how to find the spring that moves the bars; you can take to your prisoner such a rope as would enable him to escape, open the bars, leave the rope dangling from the casement to suggest he has so fled; and then bring him here, where he can lie hid until we can find means to smuggle him out of the Castle and Morvaix."
"Would God it were dark already," exclaimed Gabrielle eagerly. "Till the time comes, the seconds will be as hours."
At that moment they were interrupted and news was brought that Lucette was asking for Gabrielle.
