While Miss Lou was dressing Chunk again reconnoitred and reported
the coast clear. It was now about midnight and all were sleeping
except those whom imperative duty or pain kept awake. Chunk led the
way, steadying Miss Lou with a firm hand, and Zany followed.
"Now, Miss Lou," Chunk whispered, "I tek you de s'curest way, so you
git back en' nobody see you ef I git cotched."
They made a circuit to avoid the kitchen and climbed over a low
fence into the garden. On the further side, opening on the driveway
to the stables, was a gate. Before reaching this, Miss Lou said to
Zany, "You stay here. If there's an alarm, go to the kitchen. You
must not be known to have had anything to do with this affair. It
might cost you your life."
"Ve'y well, Miss Lou."
The young girl and her guide paused at the gate some moments, for
attendants upon the wounded, with whom the outbuildings were filled,
were passing to and fro. At last they stole across the roadway to
the shelter of a clump of trees beyond.
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