Therefore," concluded the man of logic, "he shall go to the galleys." This was interpreted to Tristram, who found the argument fallacious, but fell on his knees and kissed M.de Lambertie's hand.
"Take him away," said the Grand Provost.

He was dragged to his feet and led to the door, followed by the desperate eyes of his comrades.
He heard their sobs and outcries renewed above the steady pant of the bellows.

Then the door clanged.

The soldiers took him upstairs and cast him back into the great dungeon.
The next morning he started in a chain of thirty-five slaves for the galleys at Dunkirk..