In the first place he had made rough work of it; one man was killed on the spot, and two others were severely wounded.
The dead man and the two wounded were carried off by their comrades, and I have heard nothing of either of them since.

As for myself, as soon as I recovered my senses I went to Monsieur the Governor, to whom I related all that had passed, and asked, what I should do with my prisoner.
Monsieur the Governor was all astonishment.

He told me he knew nothing about the matter, that the orders I had received did not come from him, and that if I had the audacity to mention his name as being concerned in this disturbance he would have me hanged.

It appears that I had made a mistake, monsieur, that I had arrested the wrong person, and that he whom I ought to have arrested had escaped." "But Athos!" cried d'Artagnan, whose impatience was increased by the disregard of the authorities, "Athos, where is he ?" "As I was anxious to repair the wrongs I had done the prisoner," resumed the innkeeper, "I took my way straight to the cellar in order to set him at liberty.

Ah, monsieur, he was no longer a man, he was a devil! To my offer of liberty, he replied that it was nothing but a snare, and that before he came out he intended to impose his own conditions.