“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.
CHAPTER XVII
GABRIELLE PLEADS
GABRIELLE heard Lucette’s story with intense interest, and saw that with help from Pascal outside it might be possible to get Gerard away from Morvaix without concealing him first in the Duchess’s apartments; and she resolved to go immediately to Malincourt to consult with Pascal.
But she found the Duchess opposed to this.