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"There is no doubt, however, this Grand Duchess Alexandra should be well posted ... now. She has formally promised the King that his diamond will be found in the possession of our man ... who will be under arrest this evening...." "You believe that?" questioned M. Lepine, with a skeptical smile.
The party, under the leadership of Lepine the "Adjutant-general," was seen at one period of its progress besides the moments of starting and return.
Young then asked that he might be permitted to take the body and give it interment in the burying ground of the Presbyterian Congregation, but his request was not granted, and a similar favour was refused to the Bishop of Rupert's Land. The body was taken inside the Fort where Lepine declared it was to be buried; and where an actual burial did take place before a number of spectators.
"After all, he may elude me, go out of the territory, and marry the girl. Curses, a thousand curses upon my own head for following the advice. Malediction upon Lepine's head for having given it to me." Just at this moment, the door opened, and Lepine entered. "I bring Monsieur good news." "Ah, what is it? Any tidings of Scott?"
Lepine was convicted of murder at Winnipeg and sentenced to be hanged, when the governor-general, Lord Dufferin, intervened and commuted the sentence to two years' imprisonment, with the approval of the imperial authorities, to whom, as an imperial officer entrusted with large responsibility in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy, he had referred the whole question.
The officers of the expedition, as they approached it were quite ready for a shot to be fired from the battlements, but there was no movement, Riel, Lepine, and O'Donoghue alone, were left of the Metis levy, and as the 60th Rifles drew near the Fort the three were seen to escape from the river gate and to flee across the bridge of boats on the Assiniboine River. Capt.
Mackenzie Bowell, a prominent Orangeman, and, later, premier of the Canadian Government. Lepine, a member also of the so-called provisional government of Red River, had been tried and convicted for his share in the murder of Scott, but Lord Dufferin, when governor-general, exercised the prerogative of royal clemency, as an imperial officer, and commuted the punishment to two years' imprisonment.
What are those people to you, or you to them, that you should interfere in their affairs?" "Your question is beside the point, citizen," said Lepine blandly; "I am here to propose a bargain. Had you not better agree to it?" "Never!" reiterated Heriot emphatically. "Two thousand francs," reiterated the old man imperturbably.
The conversation continued and, as he listened, Juve could not help smiling. "They are all right! They realize the work I've done and they want me to reap the reward of it." M. Lepine had, in fact, asked M. Annion: "You are quite sure Juve will be at the Gare du Nord this evening?" "Quite sure; I have given him orders to that effect."
Then with a very low bow M. Lepine left the room, saying as he departed, "I shall endeavour to merit to the fullest the kindly eulogy which Monsieur President bestows upon me." The news of Scott's sentence spread like fire around the settlement. Some believed that the penalty would not be carried out, while others declared that they thought otherwise.
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