That same evening she kept her promise.
But the trial had made a great stir.

It was not with these prisoners as with ordinary men.

Justice made haste, and thirty-five days after the verdict had been rendered the appeal was rejected.

This decision was immediately sent to Bourg with an order to execute the prisoners within twenty-four hours.

But notwithstanding the haste of the minister of police in forwarding this decision, the first intimation of the fatal news was not received by the judicial authorities at Bourg.