events the glimmer of a light, which may probably mean my guide. No; not a sign. Are there rats here? If so.... the candle-end is sputtering worse than ever ... it is flickering ... What's to be done?... I shout "Hullo!" at the top of my voice. Yes, at the top of my voice, but at the bottom of the caves. Then the question occurs to me, of what use is it to shout in English? No one will understand me. The candle-end is making a final struggle for life. So must I. "_He', là bas!_" I shout "with all my might and main," like the celebrity of the old nursery tale, who jumped into a quickset hedge as an infallible remedy for blindness. No result. I think of the man in the dungeon who was eaten by rats. Well-known case, but quite forget the gentleman's name. Political prisoner probably whose offence had been "ratting"--and so his punishment was made "to fit the crime," as Mr. GILBERT's _Mikado_ used to observe. Why do such grimly comic reminiscences occur to me now, when I am in so really awful a situation? So, once more I shout with desperation in my lungs, "_Hé! là--! bas!_" And--oh, the joy--oh, the rapture!--there comes back to me--"_Hé, là bas!_ Blass the Prince of WAILES!" It is DAUBINET. He advances from somewhere, from an opening, the existence of which I had never suspected. "Here! This way! _Par ici, mon ami; par ici!_" And in another minute I am with him--I am out--_and so is the candle-end_. Ah! I breathe again! "The first time, I believe, that you have ever seen these caves," observes M. VESQUIER, quietly, "which, one way and another, represent several miles of walking." Then looking at his watch, he adds, "It is time for breakfast. You must be hungry." I am. Hungry, but oh! so grateful! If it weren't so expensive, I should give a Champagne-window to the Reims Cathedral, _in piam memoriam_ of my fortunate escape. A _real pane_ (not coloured paper pretence) in a window would be an appropriate memorial. Or, at all events, I might give one small "light," which, as recalling that little guttering, sputtering, candle, would be still more appropriate. * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.