The execution of the condemned was set for the next day.

At ten o'clock in the morning the regiment was to be paraded and Marteau was to be shot.

He had asked that he might be granted a soldier's death, and the Marquis had seen fit to grant the request.
There were very few troops in Grenoble which could be counted as loyal to the King, but there were some.

From them the Marquis intended to draw his firing party, and with them he intended to over-awe the regiment if there should be any outbreak.

He was too keen a judge of humanity, and too well able to read the characters of men not to realize the whole regiment was in a mutinous temper over the Eagle episode, that they looked upon Marteau as a martyr, and that there might be outbreaks and grave difficulties before he was shot.