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Piercing voices ordered unknown "Tommies" and "Ernies" to "keep by aunty, now." Just as Ukridge returned, that sauve qui peut of the railway crowd, the dreaded "Get in anywhere," began to be heard, and the next moment an avalanche of warm humanity poured into the carriage.
The alarm thus started will easily be fostered into a stampede, and at the onslaught of the savages the lancers will rush to their horses and ride off without offering resistance. In the sauve qui peut none of them will give a thought to the two prisoners lying tied under the tree. These are to be left behind to the tender mercies of the Tenawa chief.
To avoid erasing the little citizen, the patrol man had to pull sharply out; and this manoeuvre, as Fate had written it, brought him full upon the great dog Behemoth, who, having slipped across the tracks, stood gravely waiting for the flying wagon to pass. Thus it became a clear case of sauve qui peut, and the devil take the hindermost.
The men knew the bearings of Cotton-Tree Bay, so the angry voices yielded to selfish thought. If it was to be sauve qui peut when the vessel grounded, there was ample room for thought, seeing that each man's probable fate would be that of a mad dog. Hozier seized the precious respite. He spoke loudly enough that all should hear, and he began with a rebuke.
I saw my paragon glide away, like a goddess, past the scenery, and I did not see her meet her lover at the next step a fellow with a wash-leather face, greasy locks in a sausage roll, and his hair shaved off his forehead and snatch a pot of porter from his hands, and drain it to the dregs, and say, 'It is all right, Harry: that fetched 'em. But I know, by experience, she did; so sauve qui peut.
No one knew with any degree of certainty where the enemy really was, nor how far he had advanced; only one thing was certain, that the game was played out, and that sauve qui peut must be the order of the day. Men, women, and children were rushing frantically about the streets, demanding news, and repeating it with a hundred variations.
By that time the whole party were gone to Montpipeau, but that the Baron was among them was not known at the Louvre until Queen Catherine, who had always treated Diane as rather a favoured, quick-witted protegee, commanded her attendance, and on her way let her know that Madame de Sauve had reported that, among all the follies that were being perpetrated at the hunting-seat, the young Queen was absolutely throwing the little Nid-de-Merle into the arms of her Huguenot husband, and that if measures were not promptly taken all the great estates in the Bocage would be lost to the young Chevalier, and be carried over to the Huguenot interest.
"I think we have met before," said the schoolmaster to the younger ones, glad to see that two- i.e. the new Robert and Armine Brownlow- had not joined in the sauve qui peut. Nay, Robert turned and said, "Mother, it is Mr. Ogilvie."
The moment the French were sighted "General chase" was signalled, and Roquefeuille was within an ace of being surprised at his anchorage when a calm stopped the attack. The calm was succeeded by another furious gale, in which the French escaped in a disastrous sauve qui peut, and the fleet of transports was destroyed.
Like a man in a dream, Jim marched to the door, scarcely hearing the skipper's sauve voice remarking: "Hasta la vista, Senor Douglas; I will not say adios, for we shall meet again once more." The cabin door then closed, and Jim was conducted back to his cell, followed by the curious glances of the men who were assembled about the decks.
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