Thus Erebus and Hadji found themselves concealed from sight.
The young girl, sad and anxious, wished to enjoy for awhile the beauty of the night.
Time was precious, and the opportunity favourable, and the same idea entered the minds of the Bohemian and Erebus.
Quickly closing the window-blinds behind Reine, they seized her before she was able to utter a cry.
Imagine her fright, her anguish, when she recognised in her ravisher the stranger of the rocks of Ollioules!
Erebus, in the feeble struggle which occurred between him and the unhappy girl, employed every possible means to prevent violence or injury to the one he loved.
In less time than it requires to write it, Mlle, des Anbiez was surrounded with the girdle, which rendered her incapable of movement.
Erebus, not able to use his hands in descending the rope ladder, since he carried Reine in his arms, made Hadji fasten a rope around his body; as he descended each step of the ladder, the Bohemian let the rope slip softly so as to sustain the ravisher; finally, with Reine in his arms, Erebus reached the foot of the wall.
Hadji, in his turn, was just about to leave the balcony, when Stephanette entered the chamber, crying: “Mademoiselle! mademoiselle! the recorder and his soldiers have come to arrest monseigneur!” For at that moment Master Isnard and Captain Georges had arrived at the castle.
Not finding her mistress in her chamber, and seeing the window open, Stephanette ran thither.