Order all shops to be shut and the inhabitants to keep within doors, and let a body of troops be placed at the disposal of the chief of police for a search from house to house.

Some of these scoundrels may be hidden in the town." All day, officers, the bearers of reports, or who came to receive orders, entered and left the room, among them the chief of police, who reported that he had searched the palace from top to bottom, without the omission of a single room, and had failed altogether to find any traces of the fugitives.
"If they entered, they must be somewhere," said the general.

"Let a close cordon be kept around the house all night, with orders to shoot down any one they may see leaving it.

To-morrow you will repeat your search of the house.

If they are here, they must be found." The hours seemed intolerably long to the lads, standing upright and motionless against the wall.