Chapter 27, On the Track, Chapter 28, The Pere Blanchard's Hut, Chapter 29, Trapped, Chapter 30, The Schooner, and Chapter 31, The Escape Summary

Marguerite slips out of the inn as soon as she can hear Chauvelin driving away in the cart, and follows on foot. They have not traveled far when Chauvelin is approached by two soldiers on horseback. These soldiers tell him that they found a cabin on a cliff where two men fitting the descriptions of Armand St. Just and Viscount de Tournay. Chauvelin becomes excited and orders his secretary and a dozen soldiers to follow them to the cabin. Marguerite follows. Chauvelin stops the soldiers at the foot of a path that leads to cabin in order to issue his commands. Chauvelin warns the soldiers that if Lord Blakeney...