“Here!” he shouted, grabbing both girls roughly by the arm, “this is all your doing. You’ll pay for it too. Do you know what it means to help a prisoner to escape? Get in there,” and he shoved the two terrified girls back into the little room, “I’ll see to it that you don’t follow her,” and at this he took a key from his pocket, unlocked the door of a cell, and thrust Dorothy and Miette within.
CHAPTER XXI
COMPLICATIONS
Miette screamed—Dorothy felt she would faint.
The man had actually banged the heavy door shut after them.
“Oh! I shall die!” screamed Miette, “why did you ever bring me here?”
“I did not bring you here,” replied Dorothy, showing some indignation, in spite of her stronger emotions. “Just be as quiet as you can, and I am sure it will all come right. This place is new and clean at any rate, and we need not die here. There is air coming through that barred window.”
“But we must get out! I tell you I will choke!” and the French girl was certainly stifled, both with excessive nervousness and the close confines of the place.
Dorothy was hoping to hear a step outside—she was sure the officer had gone after Urania, and that they were alone in the building. It seemed hours—but it could not be more than a half hour at most until she did hear a step at the door. The next moment the outside door of the cell was opened leaving the bars between the fair prisoners and the outside room.
“M’m!” sneered the police officer, looking through the bars, “how do you like it in there? Think you’ll try that trick again?”