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CHAPTER XV.
HOW THEY CAME OUT OF HAM
On the night of the 7th and 8th of January, Charras was sleeping. The
noise of his bolts being drawn awoke him.
"So then!" said he, "they are going to put us in close confinement." And
he went to sleep again.
An hour afterwards the door was opened. The commandant of the fort
entered in full uniform, accompanied by a police agent carrying a torch.
It was about four o'clock in the morning.
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Colonel," said the Commandant, "dress yourself at once."
What for?"
You are about to leave."
Some more rascality, I suppose!"
The Commandant was silent. Charras dressed himself.
As he finished dressing, a short young man, dressed in black, came in.
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