“Have you any person certain?”
“There is me, citizen,” said I.
“Would you have that kindness?”
“I will be only too happy to render this service to M. Duplay.”
“Then have the goodness to give me pen, ink, and paper.”
The two young girls brought him the pen and paper.
He wrote, in a small hand, the following:—
“My Sister,—
“Don’t be uneasy. I am in safety.