. The Dreyfus case . Pauffin de Saint-Morel, tocommunicate to Rochefort the most crucial of theproofs of Dreyfus guilt which the secret dossiercontained. Subsequently attention was called to theimpropriety of Boisdeifres action, and as a matterof mere form a nominal punishment was inflictedon De Saint-Morel, who gave out that he had goneto Rochefort on his own initiative, and affected tobe very penitent. The substance of De Saint-Morels communica-tions as from the War Office to Rochefort appearedin the latters journal on December 13. It is soamusing that I shrink from withholding it, the mores
. The Dreyfus case . Pauffin de Saint-Morel, tocommunicate to Rochefort the most crucial of theproofs of Dreyfus guilt which the secret dossiercontained. Subsequently attention was called to theimpropriety of Boisdeifres action, and as a matterof mere form a nominal punishment was inflictedon De Saint-Morel, who gave out that he had goneto Rochefort on his own initiative, and affected tobe very penitent. The substance of De Saint-Morels communica-tions as from the War Office to Rochefort appearedin the latters journal on December 13. It is soamusing that I shrink from withholding it, the moreso because the huzzas with which it was receivedby the clerical and military journals cast a curiouslight on the psychological condition of their readers. On December 13, then, under the title TheTruth about the Traitor, Rochefort began thus inhis best oracular style:— Yes; Dreyfus Avas condemned by judges whowere shown a secret document—nay, several such. Why deny it ? Why not have said so, have cried it aloud on. GENERAL DE BOISDEFFRE. Page 152. THE AWAKENING 153 the house-tops, instead of keeping silent ? Why nothave glorified in it as in an action to be proud of,instead of concealing it as a fault ? For fear of any revision that must folloAV ? What matter ? Here goes ! . . What the Government has not been willing orhas not dared to do, we will do it. . It is hardly necessary to say that the informa-tion we now publish has not been furnished us bythe Commissary appointed to examine the case ofEsterhazy. . Let it suffice us to affirm that it comes from thebest source, that it may be regarded as absolutelyauthentic, and that, by consequence, once it isknown, the noisy protests of the Dreyfus band willbe objectless. They say that part of the public is in doubt will disappear. The partisans of thetraitor base some hope on the investigation ( ofEsterhazy) now in progress; that hope will vanish. Dreyfus and William II. Dreyfus had long been exasperated at the ant
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