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"Are we going to be shot?" asked Charras, but no answer was vouchsafed him. They were put into the voitures cellulaires, each knowing nothing of the presence of the others; even the police who were in charge of them, had no idea what prisoners they had in custody.
At the same time, nearly the same moment, Charras said to Courteille, the Commissary of Police, "Who can tell me that you are not pick-pockets?" A few days afterwards these pitiful wretches all received the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
These empty pistols were lying on the table when they came to arrest him. The Commissary of Police threw himself upon them. "Idiot," said Charras to him, "if they had been loaded, you would have been a dead man."
When this man crossed the station in company with Charras, a lady traveller said, "Has he got M. Thiers in his pocket?" What the police agent was hiding was a pair of pistols. Under their long, buttoned-up and doubled-breasted frock coats these men were armed. They were ordered to treat "those gentlemen" with the most profound respect, but in certain circumstances to blow out their brains.
On December 1, 1851, Charras shrugged his shoulder and unloaded his pistols. In truth, the belief in the possibility of a coup d'état had become humiliating. The supposition of such illegal violence on the part of M. Louis Bonaparte vanished upon serious consideration.
These pistols, we may note, had been given to Charras upon the taking of Mascara by General Renaud, who at the moment of Charras' arrest was on horseback in the street helping to carry out the coup d'état. If these pistols had remained loaded, and if General Renaud had had the task of arresting Charras, it would have been curious if Renaud's pistols had killed Renaud.
When the train again started Charras heaved the deep, joyous sigh of a freed man, and said, "At last!" He raised his eyes, and perceived his two jailers by his side. They had got up behind him into the carriage. "Ah, indeed!" he said to them; "you there!" Of these two men there was only one who spoke, that one answered, "Yes, Colonel." "What are you doing here?" "We are keeping watch over you."
Malardier. Bosse. Millotte. Bourzat. Roselli-Mollet. Brive. Charras. Chavoix. Saint-Ferreol. Clément Dulac. Sommier. "ARTICLE II. In the event, contrary to the present decree, of one of the persons named in Article I. re-entering the prohibited limits, he may be transported for the sake of public safety. "Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, at the Cabinet Council assembled, January 9th, 1852.
At Creil station the first person whom Charras saw was General Changarnier. "Ah! it is you, General." The two proscripts embraced each other. Such is exile. "What the deuce are they doing with you?" asked the General. "What they are probably doing with you. These vagabonds are making me travel under the name of Vincent." "And me," said Changarnier, "under the name of Leblanc."
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