CHAPTER XI 

Marie and Victor 

"Are you taking me to the girls, Harry?" 

"No," Harry said. "It would not be safe to do so. There are already suspicions, and they have been denounced." 

Marie gave a cry of alarm. 

"I have managed to suppress the document, Marie, and we start with them in a day or two. Still it will be better for you not to go near them. I will arrange for you to meet them to-morrow." 

"Where am I going, then?" 

"You are going to the house of a worthy couple, who have shown themselves faithful and trustworthy by nursing a friend of mine, who has for nearly six months been lying ill there. You will be perfectly safe there till we can arrange matters." 

"But if Robespierre has signed my release, as they said, I am safe enough, surely, and can go where I like." 

"I think you will be safe from re-arrest here in Paris, Marie, because you could appeal to him; but outside Paris it might be different. However, we can talk about that to-morrow, when you have had a good night's rest." 

Harry did not think it necessary to say, that when Lebat was missed it would probably be ascertained that he was last seen leaving La Force with her, and that if inquiries were set on foot about him she might be sought for. However, Marie said no more on the subject, quite content that Harry should make whatever arrangements he thought best, and she now began to ask all sorts of questions about her sisters, and so passed the time until they were close to the Place de Carrousel; then Harry called Jacques to stop. 
What good deed have they done?
 by nursing a friend of mine