"Who would have thought of a Vendean turning traitor ?" Cathelineau was still up, talking with some of his officers as to the preparations for the battle.

There was no sentry at his door.
Leigh entered and, tapping at the door of the room in which he saw a light, went in.

Cathelineau looked up in surprise, as the door opened.
"I thought you were asleep hours ago, monsieur," he said.
"It is well that I have not been, sir." And he related the conversation that he had overheard, and his own suspicions that the man Bruno meditated treachery; the steps they had taken to watch him, and the discovery they had made.
Exclamations of indignation and fury broke from the officers.
"Gentlemen," Cathelineau said, "we will at once proceed to try this traitor.

He shall be judged by men of his own class.
"Monsieur Pourcet, do you go out and awaken the first twelve peasants you come to." In a minute or two the officer returned with the peasants, who looked surprised at having been thus roused from their sleep.
"My friends, do you take your places along that side of the room.
You are a jury, and are to decide upon the guilt or innocence of a man who is accused of being a traitor." The word roused them at once, and all repeated indignantly the word "traitor!" "Monsieur Stansfield," he said to Leigh, "will you order your men to bring in the prisoner ?" The man was brought in and placed at the head of the table, opposite to Cathelineau.
"Now, Monsieur Stansfield, will you tell the jury the story that you have just told me ?" Leigh repeated his tale, interrupted occasionally by exclamations of fury from the peasants.

Andre and the other lads stepped forward, one after the other, and confirmed Leigh's statement.
"Before you return a verdict, my friends," Cathelineau said quietly, "it is but right that we should go up to the battery, and examine the cannon ourselves; not, of course, that we doubt the statement of Monsieur Stansfield and the other witnesses, but because it is well that each of you should be able to see for himself, and report to others that you have been eyewitnesses of the traitor's plot." Accordingly the whole party ascended to the battery.