CONCLUSION The appeal was allowed, and Pyrot was brought down from his cage.

But the Anti-Pyrotists did not regard themselves as beaten.

The military judges re-tried Pyrot.

Greatauk, in this second affair, surpassed himself.

He obtained a second conviction; he obtained it by declaring that the proofs communicated to the Supreme Court were worth nothing, and that great care had been taken to keep back the good ones, since they ought to remain secret.