Now, Joe, could not we run away this time too? Why should we
see that wicked, wicked Anton any more?"
"Yes, Missie, but he's werry clever; werry clever indeed, Anton is,
and he 'ud foller of us; he knows 'tis down south we're going, and
he'd come down south too."
"Yes; but, Joe, perhaps south is a big place, as big as London or
Paris, it might not be so easy for him to find us; you might get safe
back to your old mother and your good brother Jean, and I might see
Lovedy before Anton had found us again, then we should not care what
he did; and, Jography, what I've been thinking is that as we're in
great danger, it can't be wrong to spend just a franc or two out of
my winsey frock on you, and when Pericard comes back this evening
I'll ask him to direct us to some place where a train can take us all
a good bit of the way. You don't know how fast the train took me and
Maurice and Toby to London, and perhaps it would take us a good bit
of the way south so that Anton could not find us; that is my plan,
Joe, and you won't have to go to prison, Joe, dear."
CHAPTER XV.
AN ESCAPE.
It was very late, in fact quite night, when Pericard returned. By
this time the rats had come out in troops, and even Toby could
scarcely keep them at bay. He barked, however, loudly, and ran about,
and so kept them from absolutely attacking the children. By this,
however, he exposed them to another danger, for his noise must soon
have been heard in the street above, and it was well for them that
the cellar in which they were hiding was not in the same house with
Anton.
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