The dwarf looked at her.
"No, mademoiselle. He was full of business to-night, he had no thought for anything else. Is your—your obedience all the message I carry back?"
"Yes. And tell him of Gaspard Lemasle."
"I will tell him. The captain shall not hang." And Jean began to get out of the window. "The creepers are strongly grown here; where a friend can enter an enemy may. Shut the window fast, mademoiselle." Christine, stood by the window as the dwarf let himself hang by the creeper.
"A still tongue, mademoiselle, will make this place safer than it otherwise might be."
"I know, Jean."
"Good-night, mademoiselle."
"Good-night, Jean."
The dwarf paused in his descent, and Christine leaned from the window.