escape in it.

She went to the Cave. She took Angers with her now. Upon the wall a
paper was found. It was a note from M. Laflamme. She asked Angers to
give it to her without reading it. She put it in her pocket and kept it
there until she should see Hugh Tryon. He should read it to her.
She said to herself as she felt the letter in her pocket: "He loved me.
It was the least that I could do. I am so glad." Yet she was not
altogether glad either, and disturbing thoughts crossed the parallels
of her pleasure.

The Governor and Madame Solde first brought news of the complete escape
of the prisoners. The two had fled through the hills by the Brocken
Path, and though pursued after crossing, had reached the coast, and were
taken aboard the Parroquet, which sailed away towards Australia. It is
probable that Marie's visitors had their suspicions regarding the escape,
but they said nothing, and did not make her uncomfortable. Just now they
were most concerned for her bitter misfortune. Madame Solde said to her:
"My poor Marie--does it feel so dreadful, so dark?"

"No, madame, it is not so bad. There are so many things which one does
not wish to see, and one is spared the pain."

"But you will see again. When you go to England, to great physicians
there."

"Then I should have three lives, madame: when I could see, when sight
died, and when sight was born again. How wise I should be!"

They left her sadly, and after a time she heard footsteps that she knew.