She is in the old city prison, where your father is also confined." "So far that is fortunate," Jean said.
"Now, how about my father?
I should have thought that Jacques' influence would have been sufficient to protect him." The young advocate smiled bitterly.
"Monsieur Jacques Martin poses as a Brutus, Jean.

When your father was denounced in the club, he rose and said that he should take no part in the deliberations, that he was before all other things a patriot, and that he would not permit private affection to interfere with his duty as a citizen.

In fact, my dear Jean, painful as it must be for you to hear, my opinion is that your brother has all along been playing a deep game, and that his object has been to grasp the whole of your father's business and property.
It was a friend of his who denounced you at the club, when I before gave you warning; it was members of his clique who stirred the authorities up to send a small body of cavalry to capture you, and it was they also who denounced your father.

Your brother is by far the most powerful of the committee of safety, as well as in the club.

He assumes an air of perfect disinterestedness, and of a passionate love for the republic.