Crossword-Solution: SURVEILLANT 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Dans la grande cheminée flambaient des brindilles odorantes de pin et de hêtre, que la vieille Yvonne ramassait dans ses promenades le long des chemins; elle-même était là assise, surveillant leur petit souper; dans son intérieur, elle portait un serre-tête seulement, pour ménager ses coiffes; son profil, encore joli, se découpait sur la lueur rouge de son feu.

His mixed character of ambassador and of political _surveillant_, combined with the dependent state of the Kalmucks, gave him a real weight in the Tartar councils, and might have given him a far greater, had not his outrageous self-conceit, and his arrogant confidence in his own authority, as due chiefly to his personal qualities for command, led him into such harsh displays of power, and menaces so odious to the Tartar pride, as very soon made him an object of their profoundest malice.

The Directeur said he knew nothing about it; the Surveillant told me confidentially that it was a mistake on the part of the French government; that I would be out directly.

She had previously written three times, handing the letters to the _Surveillant_, as per regulations, and had received no reply.

But then—who knows? May not the French Government deliberately have allowed them to escape, after—through its incomparable spy system—learning that The Barber and his young friend were about to attempt the life of the Surveillant with an atomizer brim-full of T.N.T.? Nothing could after all be more highly probable.