"Let us go in!" cried the Vicomte. "Jane must not stay here one other minute."
"Come, then," answered Benedetto, "you shall be satisfied."
He opened the door, but it was as dark within as without. Esperance heard the door close; he spoke, but there was no answer. He stretched out his arms and felt the wall, and instantly his eyes regained their peculiar facility of sight. He was alone in a small, square room without door or window. He uttered a cry of rage.
"I have been deceived! The scoundrel!"
But at the same moment the wall opened before him like two sliding panels, but in the place of the wall were iron bars. And through these bars Esperance beheld Jane, but what he saw was so terrible that he recoiled and uttered a cry of terror, which was drowned in shrieks of laughter, wild songs and the clatter of glasses.
CHAPTER LXII.
COUCON.
Goutran had entire faith in Carmen, and he was now anxious to communicate with her. He called the former Zouave.