CHAPTER XXIII.

ONE OF M. DE BEAUFORT'S FORTY METHODS OF ESCAPE. Time, however, passed away with the prisoner as well as with those who occupied themselves with his escape, only it did not pass away quite so quickly. Unlike some men, who eagerly undertake a perilous adventure, and grow cold as the moment of execution approaches, the Duc de Beaufort, whose reckless courage was proverbial, and who had been chained down to inaction for five years, seemed to urge time forward, and to pant for the hour of action. There was in his escap…