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The account of the attempted massacre at Government House reached Lizzie through Mr Courtney; but he did not tell her that Henri de Courcelles had been arrested as one of the mutineers. He knew that she had regarded his late overseer with affection, and he wanted to spare her the pain of the suspense of learning his fate. It would be time enough, he thought, for her to mourn when her friend had been tried and condemned. But his kind consideration was wasted, for the news came to her by means of the yellow girl, Rosa, who burst into her presence on the day of De Courcelles' escape from the Fort prison, brim full of the intelligence.
‘Oh, Missy Liz! dar's grand news come from Government House. De Fort prison doors is bust open, and dey's all gone -- ebbery one of dem mutineers, and Massa Courcelles, he gone wid them.'