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In another case; that of the Carronnieres where the robbers, in order to stop the mail-coach, which had continued on its way with increased speed in spite of the order to stop, were forced to fire at a horse the Companions of Jehu had felt themselves obliged to make good this loss to the postmaster, who had received five hundred francs for the dead horse.
Both came to an end at the hotel de la Belle-Alliance. Roland remembered that the horse wounded in the attack at Les Carronnieres had been brought to this inn. In all probability there was some connivance between the inn-keeper and the Companion of Jehu. For the rest, in all probability the rider would stay there until the next evening.
"Here," said Roland, pointing to the other side of the department, toward Geneva; "there's the lake of Nantua, and here's that of Silans." "Now the third?" Roland laid his finger on the centre of the map. "General, there's the exact spot. Les Carronnieres are not marked on the map because of their slight importance." "What are Les Carronnieres?" asked the First Consul.
"General, in our part of the country the manufactories of tiles are called carronnieres; they belong to citizen Terrier. That's the place they ought to be on the map." And Roland made a pencil mark on the paper to show the exact spot where the stoppage occurred. "What!" exclaimed Bonaparte; "why, it happened less than a mile and a half from Bourg!"
The stoppages had occurred, one on the highroad between Meximieux and Montluel, on that part of the road which crosses the commune of Bellignieux; the second, at the extremity of the lake of Silans, in the direction of Nantua; the third, on the highroad between Saint-Etienne and Bourg, at a spot called Les Carronnieres. A curious fact was connected with these stoppages.
"In the first place, how much money have we to give to Branche-d'Or?" "Thirteen thousand francs from the Lake of Silans, twenty-two thousand from Les Carronnieres, fourteen thousand from Meximieux, forty-nine thousand in all," said one of the group.
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