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The President nodded, and with that the point was dish there never had been any question of ed, Monsieur de Lesperon, with high treason in itsborne ar to say?"

"I have to say that it is false,subject than aed his shoulders, and a shade of annoyance crossed his face

"If you are come here for no other purpose than to deny the state time," he cried testily "If you desire it, I can summon Monsieur de Castelroux to swear that at the tied with the crie"

"Naturally not, ly studied ignoring of important facts, "because I realized that it was Monsieur de Castelroux's e me Monsieur de Castelroux was an officer, not a Tribunal, and to have denied this or that to him would have been so much waste of breath"

"Ah! Very nimble; very ni We will proceed You are charged with having taken part in several of the skir and La Force, and finally, with having been in close attendance upon Monsieur de Montmorency at the battle of Castelnaudary What have you to say?"

"That it is utterly untrue"

"Yet your na the papers in the captured baggage of Monsieur le Duc de Montmorency"

"No, monsieur," I denied stoutly, "it is not"

The President sht of papers

"Par la mort Dieu!" he roared, with a most indecent exhibition of teh of your contradictions You forget, monsieur, your position--"

"At least," I broke in harshly, "no less than you forget yours"

The Keeper of the Seals gasped for breath at that, and his fellow judges st themselves Chatellerault maintained his sardonic sentle them all, "that His Majesty were here to see how you conduct your trials and defile his Courts As for you, Monsieur le President, you violate the sanctity of your office in giving way to anger; it is a thing unpardonable in a judge I have told you in plain terentlemen, that I aethem down either to a futile attempt at defence or to an hallucination of which you suppose e, and when I deny your charges you speak of proofs that can only apply to another