He made Granoux repeat to him how he had seen the mayor and the others surrounded by the "brigands." "I saw it all!" the poor man wailed.

"I was standing behind the blind.
They had just seized Monsieur Peirotte, and I heard him saying as he passed under my window: 'Gentlemen, don't hurt me!' They were certainly maltreating him.

It's abominable, abominable." However, Roudier calmed Granoux by assuring him that the town was free.
And the worthy gentleman began to feel quite a glow of martial ardour when Pierre informed him that he had come to recruit his services for the purpose of saving Plassans.

These three saviours then took council together.

They each resolved to go and rouse their friends, and appoint a meeting at the cart-shed, the secret arsenal of the reactionary party.