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heard, prisoner?

What have you to say?"

He replied:--

"I say, `Famous!''"

An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the jury; it was evident that the man was lost.

"Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence!

I am going to sum up the arguments."

At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice was heard crying:--

"Brevet!

Chenildieu!

Cochepaille! look here!"

All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:--

"M. Madeleine!"

BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR

CHAPTER XI

CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED

It was he, in fact.

The clerk''s lamp illumined his countenance. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white:

it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.