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The carter eyed his assistant intently and winked solemnly as if to say: "That will do the trick!" As they leave the open country behind and jog through the better settled regions immediately north of Paris, let us take our stand beside the "barrier" or outer gate which they are slowly approaching. Judge Forget-Not and his fellows are inspecting the barriers.
The horrors of Maurice's condemnation and the thought of her little lost sister nearby, rack her with a stinging pain in which is commingled little thought of self. "You sheltered this aristocrat?" questions the Judge. "Of course I love him!" "The penalty for sheltering an emigre is death!" replies Forget-Not shrilly, again playing to the Jacobins.
Now through trumped-up charges they are to be hurried away to death " "You question the justice of the people's Tribunal?" interrupted Judge Forget-Not shrilly, with obvious play at the mob. "Hell's bells!" replied the indignant Thunderer. "I established this Tribunal. Did not I as Minister of Justice set it in being, and shall I not speak when crimes are done in its name!"
They are killed or overwhelmed as the victorious commonalty take possession of the Square. Danton who has directed the proletariat is the popular hero. Forget-Not has his share of the triumph too. "Come, my men," he yells. "On to the Police Prefect's palace let us avenge the wrongs of police tyranny!"
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