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'I heard nothing,' said Toussac.
'Hush!' cried the other. 'There it is again!'
A clear rising cry floated high above the wailing of the storm; a wild,
musical cry, beginning on a low note, and thrilling swiftly up to a
keen, sharp-edged howl.
'A hound!'
'They are following us!'
Lesage dashed to the fireplace, and I saw him thrust his papers into the
blaze and grind them down with his heel.
Toussac seized the wood-axe which leaned against the wall. The thin man
dragged the pile of decayed netting from the corner, and opened a small
wooden screen, which shut off a low recess.
'In here,' he whispered, 'quick!'
And then, as I scrambled into my refuge, I heard him say to the others
that I would be safe there, and that they could lay their hands upon me
when they wished.
CHAPTER V
THE LAW
The cupboard--for it was little more--into which I had been hurried was
low and narrow, and I felt in the darkness that it was heaped with
peculiar round wickerwork baskets, the nature of which I could by no
means imagine, although I discovered afterwards that they were lobster
traps.
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