Chapter

 1  3,2|       tramp of the crowd on the staircase of the Town-hall. The noise
 2  3,2| courtyard. At the bottom of the staircase he found little Rosa, trembling
 3  3,3|        by her, they descended a staircase of about a dozen steps;
 4  4,3|        of the Hague had built a staircase with the bodies of John
 5  7,3|    terrified glance towards the staircase. ~"They are coming up! they
 6  7,3|      across the banister of the staircase the points of the halberds
 7  9,1|       prisoner was mounting the staircase, appeared at the narrow
 8 10,1|     hasty step was heard on the staircase, and immediately after a
 9 11,2|     some steps, sat down on the staircase which was thus guarded above
10 11,3|        sounds, was heard on the staircase, amidst the continued barking
11 11,3|        heart. ~The noise on the staircase which Cornelius and Rosa
12 12,1|  scaffold. At the bottom of the staircase, the dog quietly looked
13 14,2|          Cornelius heard on the staircase of the little turret a voice
14 14,2|  courtyard at the bottom of the staircase, receiving the instructions
15 14,2|    appearance at the top of the staircase. ~ ~
16 15,2|     when Cornelius heard on the staircase the light step and the rustle
17 17,2|         a step, creaking on the staircase." ~"Surely," said the prisoner, "
18 17,2|          Rosa rushed toward the staircase, and a door was really heard
19 18,1|        voice was heard from the staircase asking Gryphus how matters
20 18,1|     with his finger towards the staircase, he said to Rosa: "Just
21 19,1|     rustling of her gown on the staircase, were so familiar to his
22 21,1|         there were heard on the staircase not only the steps of Gryphus,
23 23,1|  something like a shadow on the staircase. ~Her discovery, however,
24 23,2|        the landing-place of the staircase above, descended step by
25 23,2|     foot the lowest step of the staircase, Boxtel touched with a still
26 24,1|         steps which came up the staircase, and of cries which approached
27 24,1|   re-echoing through the spiral staircase. ~ ~
28 24,2|         noise, had ascended the staircase without being heard. ~He
29 24,2|  thought, she rushed toward the staircase, saying, - ~"All is not
30 26,1|         out aloud on seeing his staircase invaded, up to the very