That list, when the trials are over and it is marked to the end, will be called in this room before you are taken to St.Lazare.It will then be sent to Robespierre, who will keep it, having a copy made of it the moment it is delivered, for circulation among his colleagues--St.Just, and the rest.

It is my business to make a duplicate of this copy in the first instance.

The duplicate will be compared with the original, and possibly with the copy, too, either by Robespierre himself, or by some one in whom he can place implicit trust, and will then be sent to St.Lazare without passing through my hands again.

It will be read in public the moment it is received, at the grating of the prison, and will afterward be kept by the jailer, who will refer to it, as he goes round in the evening with a piece of chalk, to mark the cell doors of the prisoners destined for the guillotine to-morrow.

That duty happens, to-day, to fall to the hunchback whom you saw speaking to me.