Terrible tales, French by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brentano

All this they did with the greatest calmness, and then the chief ordered me to lead them to my garret.

We went up. When we arrived there we found that Annette had taken the trouble to light a fire there. Madoc, muttering curses between his teeth, hastened to throw water over it and extinguish it. Then pointing to the pallet, he said—

' If you have the heart, you may sleep !'

He sat down with his men at the end of the room near to the wall, and one of them blew out the light.

And I lay there praying to heaven to send the murderer to us.

After a minute or two the silence was so profound that no one could have imagined that there were three men in the room, watching, listening to the slightest noise, like hunters on the track of some timorous beast. I could not sleep, for a thousand horrible thoughts occurred to me. I listened to the clock striking one, two. Nothing happened ; no one came.

At three o'clock one of the police-officers moved, and then I thought my man must have come, but all became quiet again. Then I began to think that Madoc must regard me as an impostor; to think how put out he would be, and how he would revenge himself on me the next day; how, wishing to assist my comrades, I had myself run into the toils.

When three o'clock had struck, the time seemed to me to go very quickly. I should have liked the night to have been much longer; time might afford me a loophole of escape.

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