They soon dressed themselves, hanging their knives round their necks.
“I told you the truth. You see who and what they are!” exclaimed the dame.
Jeannette, too, pleaded eloquently on their behalf, but the sergeant was unmoved.
“All you say may be right, but I must take them,” he answered. “Come—quick march!”
He allowed them, however, to take an affectionate farewell of the dame and Jeannette, the latter bursting into tears as she saw them dragged off by the soldiers.
Chapter Seven.
Shut up in a tower.
Jack and Bill marched along in the middle of the party of soldiers, endeavouring, as well as they could, to keep up their spirits, and to appear unconcerned. Where they were going they could not tell.