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Nevertheless, I think I should have preferred, Panther, that we had no proofs at all." The first act of the Anti-Pyrotist Association was to ask the Government immediately to summon the seven hundred Pyrotists and their accomplices before the High Court of Justice as guilty of high treason.

Prince des Boscenos was charged to speak on behalf of the Association and presented himself before the Council which had assembled to hear him.

He expressed a hope that the vigilance and firmness of the Government would rise to the height of the occasion.