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It was a kind of miracle to be back on Royale. I had left it with an eight-year sentence. Because of the attempted rescue I was back nineteen months later.
All my friends were there: Dega, who was still clerk; Galgani, still the postman; Carbonieri, who had been acquitted; Grandet; Bourset the carpenter; the "wheelbarrow boys," Narric and Quenier; Chatal in the infirmary-my accomplice in my first cavale-and Maturette, who was an infirmary aide.