. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ean, and that it was supposedMarie-Anne had escaped to some foreign country with theDEscorval family. When summoned before the court for trial,Lacheneur was calm and dignified in manner. He made no at-tempt at defense, hut answered every question with perfectfrankness. He took all the blame upon himself, and would notgive the name of any one accomplice. Condemned to be be-headed, he was executed on the following day, walking to thescaffold and mounting to the platform with a firm step. A fewseconds later the blade of the guillotine fell with a loud wh
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ean, and that it was supposedMarie-Anne had escaped to some foreign country with theDEscorval family. When summoned before the court for trial,Lacheneur was calm and dignified in manner. He made no at-tempt at defense, hut answered every question with perfectfrankness. He took all the blame upon himself, and would notgive the name of any one accomplice. Condemned to be be-headed, he was executed on the following day, walking to thescaffold and mounting to the platform with a firm step. A fewseconds later the blade of the guillotine fell with a loud whir,and the rebellion of the fourth of March counted its twenty-first victim. That same evening the townsfolk of Montaignae were busytalking of the magnificent rewards which were to be bestowedon the Due de Sairmeuse and the Marquis de Courtornieu fortheir services to the royal cause, and a report was flying abroadto the effect that Martial and Mademoiselle Blanche were nowto be married with great pomp, and with as little delay AFTER Lacheneur had been executed, the codiefators. re-* gretting, as we have already said, the precipitation withwhich they had sentenced many of the minor partizans of theIt, sought to propitiate public opinion by treating the re-maining prisoners with unexpected clemency. Out of a hun-dred peasants still confined in the citadel, only eighteen ortwenty were tried, and the sentences pronounced upon themwere light in the extreme: all the others were released. MajorCarini, the leader of the military conspirators in Montaignae,had expected to lose htS head, but to his own astonishment hewas only sentenced to two years imprisonment. This tardyindulgence did not, however, efface popular recollections offerity, and the townsfolk of Montaignae openly de-clared thai if MM. de Sairmeuse and De Courtornieu wereclement, it was only because they were afraid of the conse- 484 THE HONOR OF THE NAME quences that might await continued So thus it c
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