"Never mind; we shall find her later on.

This capture is the most important." So saying he set out, with Marie walking beside him, with a guard on either hand.

In the next street he came on a party of four of the armed soldiers of the Commune, and ordered them to take the place of those he had first charged with the duty, and directed them to proceed with him to the Maine.
Marie was taken at once before the committee sitting en permanence for the discovery and arrest of suspects.
"I charge this young woman with being an aristocrat in disguise.
She is the daughter of the ci-devant Marquis de St.Caux, who was executed on the 2d of September at Bicetre." "Murdered, you mean, sir," Marie said in a clear haughty voice.
"Why not call things by their proper name ?" "I am sorry," Lebat went on, not heeding the interruption, "that it should fall to my lot to denounce her, for I acknowledge that in the days before our glorious Revolution commenced I have visited at her father's chateau.

But I feel that my duty to the republic stands before any private considerations." "You have done perfectly right," the president of the committee said.

"As I understand that the accused does not deny that she is the daughter of the ci-devant marquis, I will at once sign the order for her committal to La Force.