The future was only too thoroughly to justify Greatauk's perspicacity.

La Trinite demanded the documents belonging, to the Pyrot affair.

Peniche, his Minister of War, refused them in the superior interests of the national defence, telling him that the documents under General Panther's care formed the hugest mass of archives in the world.

La Trinite studied the case as well as he could, and, without penetrating to the bottom of the matter, suspected it of irregularity.

Conformably to his rights and prerogatives he then ordered a fresh trial to be held.