But the Court wishes you to understand that it is satisfied of your identity.

The papers found upon your person at the time of your arrest, besides other evidence in our power, remove all possibility of doubt in that connection.

Therefore, in your own interests, we implore you to abandon these false statements, if so be that you are master of your wits.

Your only hope of saving your head must lie in your truthfully answering our questions, and even then, Monsieur de Lesperon, the hope that we hold out to you is so slight as to be no hope at all." There was a pause, during which the other judges nodded their heads in sage approval of their President's words.

For myself, I kept silent, perceiving how little it could avail me to continue to protest, and awaited his next question.
"You were arrested, monsieur, at the Chateau de Lavedan two nights ago by a company of dragoons under the command of Captain de Castelroux.