as you please. Now, how to find Mademoiselle de Malincourt?"
"She is still at the Governor's Castle. You can seek her there."
"Nay, by your leave, that can I do only in the last extreme. Suspicion is all over the place, and if they were to clap me by Dubois' side there would be more to pay than we can just now afford."
"Dubois? Who is he?"
"Another of this Governor's prisoners, and while he's in I must keep out. Will you go to miladi?"
"Of course I will. What shall I tell her?"
"That the liberty and perhaps the lives of the prisoners depends upon her seeing me instantly."
"Who shall I say you are?"
"Say what you like—that I am close in my master's confidence and have a plan for liberating him, if she will but come to me quickly."
It was this conversation which sent Lucette hurrying in hot haste to seek Gabrielle at the Castle, while Pascal employed the time of her absence in examining Malincourt with an eye to putting it in the best condition of defence.
