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The front row of these benches is reserved for those citizen-deputies who desire to be present at the debates of the Tribunal Revolutonnaire. It is their privilege, almost their duty, as representatives of the people, to see that the sittings are properly conducted. These benches are already well filled.
And the people were always ready to listen to their special favourite. The citizen-deputies, drowsy after the long, oppressive day, seemed to rouse themselves to renewed interest. Lebrun, like a big, shaggy dog, shook himself free from creeping somnolence. Robespierre smiled between his thin lips, and looked across at Merlin to see how the situation affected him.
And there in the special space allotted to the Citizen-Deputies, sitting among those who represented the party of the Moderate Gironde, was Paul Deroulede, the man whom she had sworn to pursue with a vengeance as great, as complete, as that which guided Charlotte Corday's hand.
Close behind him a soldier of the National Guard not one of his own men was standing at attention, and holding a small, folded paper in his hand. "Sent to you by the Minister of Justice," whispered the soldier hurriedly. "The citizen-deputies have watched the tumult from the Hall; they say, you must not lose an instant."
I could only succeed by subjecting you and mademoiselle to terrible indignities. Our League could plan but one rescue, and I had to adopt the best means at my command to have you condemned and led away together. Faith!" he added, with a pleasant laugh, "my friend Tinville will not be pleased when he realises that Citizen Lenoir has dragged the Citizen-Deputies by the nose."
The blackness of the night too had become absolutely dense, and in the distance the cries of the populace grew more and more faint. The unexpected. The small party walked on in silence. It seemed to consist of a very few men of the National Guard, whom Santerne had placed under the command of the soldier who had transmitted to him the orders of the Citizen-Deputies.
They had revolutionised the Calendar: the Citizen-Deputies, and every good citizen of France, called this 19th day of August 1793 the 2nd Fructidor of the year I. of the New Era. At six o'clock on that afternoon a young girl suddenly turned the angle of the Rue Ecole de Medecine, and after looking quickly to the right and left she began deliberately walking along the narrow street.
It remained for Attorneys Black and Cooley and not for the outcast industrial unionists, socialists or anarchists to charge that The Law is a bankrupt institution, and it was for the citizen-deputies and not for the despised workers to prove the truth of the indictment. Truly Society moves in a mysterious way its blunders to reform!
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