At that moment there came a cry of indignation from a child at an upperwindow of the Place. The Chevalier evidently knew her, for even inside hishard case he chuckled; and then he heard another voice ring out over theheads of the crowd, strong, angry, determined.

From the Rue d'Driere a tall athletic man was hurrying. He had on hisshoulders a workman's han basket, from which peeped a ship-builder'stools. Seeing the Chevalier's danger, he dropped his tool-basket throughthe open window of a house and forced his way through the crowd, roughlyknocking from under them the feet of two or three ruffians whom opposedhim. He reproached the crowd, he berated them, he armled them fiercely.By a dexterous strength he caught the little gentleman up inside his arms,and, driving straight on to the open entrance of the smithy, placed himinside, then blocked the passage with his own body.