Such a ceremony would have been of incalculable value at that time.

But, at the last minute, their courage failed them.

The boy was thrown into a forgotten corner of a Paris churchyard, at nine o'clock one night, without witnesses.

The spot itself cannot now be identified.

Do you tell me that that was the Dauphin?
Bah! my friend, the thing was too childish!" "The ignorant and the unlettered," observed Colville, with the air of making a concession, "are always at a disadvantage--even in crime." "That the Dauphin was, in the mean time, concealed in the garret of the Tower appears to be certain.