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After that he must find work or they must starve . In the garden of the Cafe Ducrot Billy placed his guard at a table with bottles of beer between them , and at an ` adjoining table with Claire plotted the elopement for that night . The garden was in the rear of the hotel and a door in the lower wall opened into the rue Cambon , that led directly to the water-front . Billy proposed that at eight o'clock Claire should be waiting in the rue Cambon outside this door . They would then make their way to one of the less frequented wharfs , where Claire would arrange to have a rowboat in readiness , and in it they would take refuge on the steamer . An hour later , before the flight of Claire could be discovered , they would have started on their voyage to the mainland . `` I warn you , '' said Billy , `` that after we reach New York I have only enough to keep us for a week .