Tell them also, that if they choose to forget their duty, their obedience, and their oaths, and attempt to seize Denot's person, neither I nor M.Henri will ever again accompany them to battle, and that they shall not lay a hand upon him till they have passed over our bodies.

Do you understand ?" Chapeau said that he did understand, and with a somewhat melancholy face, he returned to the noisy crowd, who were waiting for their victim in the front of the house.

"Well, Jacques," said one of them, an elderly man, who had for the time taken upon himself the duties of a leader among them, and who was most loud in demanding that sentence should be passed upon Denot.

"We are ready, and the rope is ready, and the gallows is ready, and we are only waiting for the traitor.

We don't want to hurry M.Henri or M.de Lescure, but we hope they will not keep us waiting much longer." "You need not wait any longer," said Chapeau, "for Adolphe Denot is not to be hung at all.