He escapes with his wife through the only door which is left
unguarded, wanders about all night, exposed to the gun-shots of the
squads which are on his track, and reaches Lyons only on the
following day. - ?Meanwhile the pillagers send him notice that if
he does not abandon his rentals, they will cut down his forests and
burn up everything on his estate. The chateau, indeed, is fired
three distinct times, while, in the interval, the band sack another
chateau at Bay?re, and, on again passing by that of M. de Chaponay,
demolish a dam which had cost 10,000 livres. - The public
prosecutor, for his part, remains quiet, notwithstanding the appeals
to him: he doubtless says to himself that a gentleman whose house
has been searched is lucky to have saved his life, and that others,
like M. Guillin-Dumoutet, for example, have not been as fortunate.
The latter gentleman, formerly captain of a vessel belonging to the
India Company, afterwards Commandant at Senegal, now retired from
active life, occupied his chateau of Poleymieux with his young wife
and two infant children, his sisters, nieces, and sister-in-law -
in all, ten women belonging to his family and domestic service -
one Negro servant and himself; an old man of sixty years of age;
here is a haunt of militant conspirators which must be disarmed as
soon as possible.
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