The first sight of her judges, the first shock on confronting the pitiless curiosity of the audience, seemed to overwhelm Rose.

She turned from deadly pale to crimson, then to pale again, and hid her face on her brother's shoulder.

How fast she heard his heart throbbing! How the tears filled her eyes as she felt that his fear was all for her! "Now," said the president, writing down their names.

"Denounced by whom ?" Magloire and Picard stepped forward to the table.

The first answered--"By Citizen Superintendent Danville." The reply made a great stir and sensation among both prisoners and audience.
"Accused of what ?" pursued the president.
"The male prisoner, of conspiracy against the Republic; the female prisoner, of criminal knowledge of the same." "Produce your proofs in answer to this order." Picard and Magloire opened their minutes of evidence, and read to the president the same particulars which they had formerly read to Lomaque in the secret police office.
"Good," said the president, when they had done, "we need trouble ourselves with nothing more than the identifying of the citizen and citoyenne Dubois, which, of course, you are prepared for.