"Wretch! you would separate the betrothed from the dying?"
"Go, beloved," said Germain, releasing her. "It is just that I should die, but not you. I shall love you in the grave. Remember not my errors."
"No, I will never leave you, Germain. Oh, Germain, I will die with you."
"Take the woman off!" growled the Admiral to the turnkeys. They obeyed him instantly.
Germain rushed after them to the door of the cell, but it was closed upon him, and he caught only a shadow through the grating and heard her last cry of grief.
[CHAPTER LIII]
RETRIBUTION ACCOMPLISHED
When Cyrène was pushed out of the outer portal of the prison she was met by her good friend the patriot Hugues la Tour.
"Do not despair," said he. "My influence is great; he shall yet be saved."
"Oh, for the love of God, try, citizen," she sobbed. Supporting her he signed for a fiacre and drove her to his room not far away, where he left her with the housekeeper, and bidding her trust in him, flew back and obtained an interview with Lecour in his cell. He explained the object of his visit and the history of his connection with Cyrène.