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It was declared that military secrets continued to leak out after Dreyfus's arrest, and that the handwriting of the letter found was closely similar to that of Count Ferdinand Esterhazy, an officer in the French army, of noble Hungarian descent. This matter was so ventilated that some action became necessary and Esterhazy was tried secretly by court-martial, the trial ending in acquittal.
He gave me a description of the scene of Dreyfus's public degradation on the Champ de Mars which was like a chapter of Carlyle's French Revolution at first hand. It was crammed with detail and so intensely dramatic that it made the scene live over again. I asked him at last in surprise: "But surely you were not there?"
Devil's Island, the place of Dreyfus's captivity, was a popular rendezvous, though it is so named not because of these gatherings, but because of a particularly unmanageable prisoner who was once confined there.
As yet they could not say that it was he who had actually forged that famous 'absolute proof' of Dreyfus's guilt, which they knew to have been forged by some one, but that time would prove him guilty of some abominable machination was to them a foregone conclusion. One day, it must have been I suppose the 31st of August, a rather strange telegram in French reached me for transmission to M. Zola.
Roque, Brazil All at sea regarding the Spanish-American war An exchange of signals with the battle-ship Oregon Off Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island Reappearance to the Spray of the north star The light on Trinidad A charming introduction to Grenada Talks to friendly auditors.
'Well, I replied, 'he will probably want another safe-conduct before answering that question. 'Do you think that a safe-conduct to take Dreyfus's place would suit him? was M. Zola's retort. But the clock was now on the stroke of the hour, the carriage doors were hastily closed, and the signal for departure was given. 'Au revoir, au revoir! A last handshake, and the train started.
As was natural, M. Zola was quite excited. First, the document which Henry had confessed to having forged was the very one that General de Pellieux had imported into the Zola trial in Paris as convincing proof of Dreyfus's guilt. At that time already its effect had been very great; it had destroyed all chance of M. Zola's acquittal.
For by going into voluntary banishment, he kept not only his own but also Dreyfus's case 'open, and thus helped to foil the last desperate attempts that were being made to prevent the truth from being discovered. I should add that in the following pages I deal very slightly with l'Affaire Dreyfus, on which so many books have already been written.
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