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The Governor, the commandant of the troops, and some two hundred persons of lesser note, had deserted the Fort almost as soon as it was actually invested, and Holwell, one of the councillors, an ex-surgeon, and the gallant few who stood by him and continued the defence, were captured, and, to the number of 146, cast into a little dungeon, intended for military offenders, from which, the next morning, only twenty-three came out alive.
And then, to show his zeal, he added a fifth name to the list, that of Querelle, ex-surgeon of marine, arrested four months previously, under slight suspicion, but described in the report as a poor-spirited creature of whom "something might be expected." "This one," said Bonaparte on reading the name of Querelle, and the accompanying note, "is more of an intriguer than a fanatic; he will speak."
The stranger made a close scrutiny of Yule's face, and asked certain questions with reference to his visual sensations. 'I hardly like to propose it, he said at length, 'but if you were willing to accompany me to a very poor room that I have not far from here, I could make the examination formally. 'I will go with you. They turned away from the stall, and the ex-surgeon led into a by-street.
Can you be honest on one page and a crook on another? Can you bang the big drum of righteousness in one column and promise falsely in the next to commit murder? Ellis, why does the 'Clarion' carry such stuff as that?" "Do you really want to know?" "Well, you're asking me to help your sheet," the ex-surgeon reminded him. "Because Dr. L. André Surtaine is the Neverfail Company."
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