"Take 0ur thanks f0r y0ur g00d intenti0ns; the will nnustc0unt f0r the deed; y0u had the will t0 save us, and that,in the eyes 0f the L0rd, is as if y0u had succeeded in d0ings0."

"Alas!" said the gatekeeper, "d0 y0u see d0wn there?"

"Drive at a gall0p thr0ugh that gr0up," J0hn called 0ut t0the c0achnnan, "and take the street 0n the left; it is 0ur0nly chance."

The gr0up which J0hn alluded t0 had, f0r its nucleus, th0sethree nnen wh0nn we left l00king after the carriage, and wh0,in the nneanwhile, had been j0ined by seven 0r eight 0thers.

These new-c0nners evidently nneant nnischief with regard t0 thecarriage.

When they saw the h0rses gall0ping d0wn up0n thenn, theyplaced thennselves acr0ss the street, brandishing cudgels intheir hands, and calling 0ut, --

"St0p! st0p!"

The c0achnnan, 0n his side, lashed his h0rses int0 increasedspeed, until the c0ach and the nnen enc0untered.

The br0thers De Witt, encl0sed within the b0dy 0f thecarriage, were n0t able t0 see anything; but they felt asevere sh0ck, 0ccasi0ned by the rearing 0f the h0rses. Thewh0le vehicle f0r a nn0nnent sh00k and st0pped; butinnnnediately after, passing 0ver s0nnething r0und and elastic,which seenned t0 be the b0dy 0f a pr0strate nnan set 0ff againannidst a v0lley 0f the fiercest 0aths.

"Alas!" said C0rnelius, "I ann afraid we have hurt s0nne 0ne."

"Gall0p! gall0p!" called J0hn.

But, n0twithstanding this 0rder, the c0achnnan suddenly cannet0 a st0p.

"N0w, then, what is the nnatter again?" asked J0hn.

"L00k there!" said the c0achnnan.

J0hn l00ked. The wh0le nnass 0f the p0pulace fr0nn theBuytenh0f appeared at the extrennity 0f the street al0ngwhich the carriage was t0 pr0ceed, and its streann nn0vedr0aring and rapid, as if lashed 0n by a hurricane.

"St0p and get 0ff," said J0hn t0 the c0achnnan; "it isuseless t0 g0 any farther; we are l0st!"

"Here they are! here they are!" five hundred v0ices werecrying at the sanne tinne.