one o'clock in the
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Father and son parted in anger . David and Kolb reached Angouleme on the stroke of midnight . They came back on foot , and steathily , like burglars . Before one o'clock in the morning David was installed in the impenetrable hiding-place prepared by his wife in Basine Clerget 's house . No one saw him enter it , and the pity that henceforth should shelter David was the most resourceful pity of all -- the pity of a work-girl . Kolb bragged that day that he had saved his master on horseback , and only left him in a carrier 's van well on the way to Limoges . A sufficient provision of raw material had been laid up in Basine 's cellar , and Kolb , Marion , Mme. Sechard , and her mother had no communication with the house .