I don't care a rap for anything as a rule; but, all the same, an execution isn't a pleasant business....

You can't imagine how many attempts were made to save Salvat's life.

Even some of the papers asked that he might be reprieved.

But nothing succeeded, the execution was regarded as inevitable, it seems, even by those who consider it a blunder.

Still, they had such a touching opportunity to reprieve him, when his daughter, little Celine, wrote that fine letter to the President of the Republic, which I was the first to publish in the 'Globe.' Ah! that letter, it cost me a lot of running about!" Pierre, who was already quite upset by this long wait for the horrible scene, felt moved to tears by Massot's reference to Celine.