| Q| C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing | | | | || you will tear it up. The men admitted | | | | | | will do thesame when you have transmitted | | | | | | their orders to them. | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, | | | | | | u og a fe L. |
It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters:
quinturions, centurions, decurions, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters:
u og a fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832.
Under each capital letter were inscribed names followed by very characteristic notes.
Thus:
Q. Bannerel. 8 guns, 83 cartridges.
A safe man.--C. Boubiere.
1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. Rollet.
1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.-- E. Tessier.
1 sword, 1 cartridge-box. Exact.--Terreur.
8 guns. Brave, etc.
Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of enigmatical list:--Unite:
Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6.
Barra.
Soize.
Salle-au-Comte.
Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher?