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Santerre. *
assisted them both in theft and assassination during nearly fifteen months , and only gave them up to justice when he knew their number , and the connection they had with the other malefactors of the country . It is not astonishing , after this , that you met him in the quarter where you saw him . As to the decoration which he wears , it is without doubt in order to
practise his dangerous calling with greater success , and I conceive that he merits it , considering the greatness of the service he has rendered to the country , if it can condescend to grant distinctions to men of his class ; he must also have been a fellow of undaunted courage , to have undertaken such a task , for he played a dangerous game in remaining so long within
the reach of the talons of Pierre Renard ; but I am happy to tell you that he loved the daughter ' . " " He loved Rosa , " cried I with horror , that I cared not to conceal ; " well , this solves the enigma that I could never understand ; he loved her , and notwithstanding—"
He delivered the father of this charming girl and seventeen of his accomplices up to justice ; and he did wisely , for , I ask you , in what could the love of this wretch end ? He well knew Rosa would never give him either her hand or her heart , and then the trade he followed had its duties , and these duties were most pressing . "
" It is true ! I will not dispute it ; you say then that he gave up seventeen of these wretches to justice ?" " Quite as many , not to speak of three others , who soon died of their wounds , and who made up the number of the gang . Six weeks from that time the executioner of Amiens did not want for workbut he who gave him the most troubleand
, , struggled with him even upon the scaffold , was the terrible innkeeper of Deniecourt . " And for years afterwards in the country , the name of this cunning and unprincipled scoundrel , so fatally celebrated , was never pronounced without causing those who heard it to shudder .
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Santerre. *
assisted them both in theft and assassination during nearly fifteen months , and only gave them up to justice when he knew their number , and the connection they had with the other malefactors of the country . It is not astonishing , after this , that you met him in the quarter where you saw him . As to the decoration which he wears , it is without doubt in order to
practise his dangerous calling with greater success , and I conceive that he merits it , considering the greatness of the service he has rendered to the country , if it can condescend to grant distinctions to men of his class ; he must also have been a fellow of undaunted courage , to have undertaken such a task , for he played a dangerous game in remaining so long within
the reach of the talons of Pierre Renard ; but I am happy to tell you that he loved the daughter ' . " " He loved Rosa , " cried I with horror , that I cared not to conceal ; " well , this solves the enigma that I could never understand ; he loved her , and notwithstanding—"
He delivered the father of this charming girl and seventeen of his accomplices up to justice ; and he did wisely , for , I ask you , in what could the love of this wretch end ? He well knew Rosa would never give him either her hand or her heart , and then the trade he followed had its duties , and these duties were most pressing . "
" It is true ! I will not dispute it ; you say then that he gave up seventeen of these wretches to justice ?" " Quite as many , not to speak of three others , who soon died of their wounds , and who made up the number of the gang . Six weeks from that time the executioner of Amiens did not want for workbut he who gave him the most troubleand
, , struggled with him even upon the scaffold , was the terrible innkeeper of Deniecourt . " And for years afterwards in the country , the name of this cunning and unprincipled scoundrel , so fatally celebrated , was never pronounced without causing those who heard it to shudder .