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Show OUT ()I" THE .IA‘VS ()l" DEATH 10:) Suddenly I felt mysclt' hoisted up ott' my feet and slung,r up on to a pair of shoulders that must have been very powert'ul indeed. tor I am no light weightand onee more I heard the voiee. the \er_v sound ot' whieh was delight. quite elose to my ear this time. giving a briel' and eompreliensive command : " All readyfremember your partiien avant l " Then it added in l‘lug'lish; "' lIere, 'l‘onv, you start lx‘it'liitlg‘ against the door whilst we begin to shout! " I loved those t'ew words of English. and hoped that maman had heard them too. t'or it would eontirm her was it did me in the happy knowledge that, (lod and a brave man had taken our reseue in hand. But trom that moment we might, all have been in the very ante- ehamber ot' hell. I (-ould hear the violent l(l('l{\ against the heavy door of our prison. and our brave reseuers seemed suddenlv to he transl'ormed into a eaget'ul ot' wild beasts. 'l‘heir shouts and yells were as horrible as an_\' that. eame to us from the outside, and I must say that the gent le. tirm voiee whieh I had learnt to love was as exeerable as any I eould hear. Apparently the door would not yield. as the blows against it beeame Inore and more violent. and presently. t'rom somewhere above my head -~the window presumablyithere eame a rough eall and a raueous laugh: " \Vhyl what in the name ot' is happening here { " And the voiee near me answered baek eipiallv roughly: "A quarry ot' six-Mbut we are (‘aug‘ht in this trap meet, the door Open t'oI' us, Citizeniwe want to be rid of this booty and go in seareh tor more? A horrible laugh was the reply t'rom above. and the nevt. instant I heard a territie erash; the door had at last been burst open either from within or without, I eould not tell whieh. and suddenly all the din. the eries. the groans. the hideous laughter and bibulous songs whieh had sounded mutIled up to now burst upon us with all their hideousness. |