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Rh of hope came into her heart. She saw rotting wood and rusting iron. She pushed on one bar. It gave slightly.

"I can force them out, I'm sure!" she exclaimed aloud. "Oh, for something to use!"

Her light shone around the room—on a pile of broken chairs. She ran and grasped the leg of one. It was heavy and solid.

Mollie placed it between two of the bars, and pried. She was strong, and it did not take all of her muscle to force the ends of the rods from the rotting wood of the sill. A child might have done it. In a moment she had a space sufficiently wide to enable her to get out.

And then she heard a sound out in the road. It was a carriage being driven rapidly.

"Perhaps that man went for some vehicle in which to take me away!" thought the girl, aghast. "I had better not go out! What shall I do? My light! I must put it out, or he'll see me," and she turned the flame of the lantern down, leaving herself in darkness.