How could he know that a simple cross was drawn above his name, and that this symbol of redemption guaranteed his safety from one end of France to the other?
For the rest, the first thing to be done was to surround the Chartreuse of Seillon, and to search thoroughly into its most secret places--a thing Roland believed himself perfectly competent to do.
The night was now too far advanced to undertake the expedition, and it was postponed until the one following.

In the meantime Roland remained quietly in hiding in the captain's room at the barracks that no one might suspect his presence at Bourg nor its cause.

The following night he was to guide the expedition.

In the course of the morrow, one of the gendarmes, who was a tailor, agreed to make him a sergeant's uniform.

He was to pass as a member of the brigade at Sons-le-Saulnier, and, thanks to the uniform, could direct the search at the Chartreuse without being recognized.
Everything happened as planned.