"As I thought!" he exclaimed.
"What?" demanded the governor, eagerly.
"He is there."
"Who?"
"Who but the prisoner? Mathias is there—hopelessly stuck—wedged in. He has been trying to escape and has hurt himself."
The woman looked up at these words.
"Is it no worse?" she asked. "Is he badly hurt?"
"I can not say yet," said the surgeon; "we must get him down first."
This proved a very difficult matter indeed.
The flue was so narrow that it was sheer madness to attempt climbing it.