"And you, madame, have the goodness to advance and raise your veil." The veiled lady obeyed.
"My mother!" cried Amelie, but in a voice so choked that only those near her heard the words.
"Madame de Montrevel!" murmured the audience.
At that moment the first gendarme appeared at the door, then the second.
After him came the prisoners, but not in the same order as before.
Morgan had placed himself third, so that, separated as he was from the gendarmes by Montbar and Adler in front and d'Assas behind, he might be better able to clasp Amelie's hand.
Montbar entered first.
Madame de Montrevel shook her head.
Then came Adler.
Madame de Montrevel made the same negative sign.
Just then Morgan passed before Amelie.
"We are lost!" she said.
He looked at her in astonishment as she pressed his hand convulsively.
Then he entered.
"That is he," said Madame de Montrevel, as soon as she saw Morgan--or, if the reader prefers it, Baron Charles de Sainte-Hermine--who was now proved one and the same man by means of Madame de Montrevel's identification.
A long cry of distress burst from the audience.

Montbar burst into a laugh.
"Ha! by my faith!" he cried, "that will teach you, dear friend, to play the gallant with fainting women." Then, turning to Madame de Montrevel, he added: "With three short words, madame, you have decapitated four heads." A terrible silence fell, in the midst of which a groan was heard.
"Usher," said the judge, "have you warned the public that all marks of approbation or disapproval are forbidden ?" The usher inquired who had disobeyed the order of the court.

It was a woman wearing the dress of a Bressan peasant, who was being carried into the jailer's room.
From that moment the accused made no further attempt at denial; but, just as Morgan had united with them when arrested, they now joined with him.

Their four heads should be saved, or fall together.
That same day, at ten in the evening, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty, and the court pronounced the sentence of death.
Three days later, by force of entreaties, the lawyers obtained permission for the accused to appeal their case; but they were not admitted to bail..