In these circumstances the Prince des Boscenos thought it urgent to curb their audacity and repress their insolence.

For this purpose he joined with Count Clena, M.de La Trumelle, Viscount Olive, and M.Bigourd in founding a great anti-Pyrotist association to which citizens in hundreds of thousands, soldiers in companies, regiments, brigades, divisions, and army corps, towns, districts, and provinces, all gave their adhesion.
About this time the Minister of War happening to visit one day his Chief of Staff, saw with surprise that the large room where General Panther worked, which was formerly quite bare, had now along each wall from floor to ceiling in sets of deep pigeon-holes, triple and quadruple rows of paper bundles of every as form and colour.

These sudden and monstrous records had in a few days reached the dimensions of a pile of archives such as it takes centuries to accumulate.
"What is this ?" asked the astonished minister.
"Proofs against Pyrot," answered General Panther with patriotic satisfaction.

"We had not got them when we convicted him, but we have plenty of them now." The door was open, and Greatauk saw coming up the stair-case a long file of porters who were unloading heavy bales of papers in the hall, and he saw the lift slowly rising heavily loaded with paper packets.
"What are those others ?" said he.
"They are fresh proofs against Pyrot that are now reaching us," said Panther.

"I have asked for them in every county of Penguinia, in every Staff Office and in every Court in Europe.