"This is no Englishman's concern.
To-day's shame is France's and a Frenchman alone can judge it.

Innocent blood is on this man's hands, and it is for me to pay the first instalment of justice.

The rest I leave to God." So when an hour later the stunned troopers recovered their senses they found a sight which sent them to their knees to patter prayers.

For over the arch of the bridge dangled the corpse of the Jacobin.

And on its breast it bore a paper setting forth that this deed had been done by Gaspard de Laval, and the Latin words "O si sic omnes!" Meantime far up in the folds of the Santerre a little party was moving through the hot afternoon.