"I await your orders, Commandant; but I have already said that I desire to be arrested, and I repeat my request."
"Wait, wait," murmured Simon, with a malicious smile; "since you are so bent upon it, we shall try to settle that little matter for you," and he went to find the woman Tison.
ARTHÉMISE.
They searched during the whole day in the court, in the garden and its environs, for the little billet which had caused all this tumult, and which they no longer doubted contained the whole plot.
They interrogated the queen, after having separated her from her daughter and sister, but elicited nothing more from her than that she had, on the staircase, encountered a young woman carrying a bouquet, and had drawn a single flower from the centre.
Moreover, she would not have plucked this flower had she not first obtained the consent of the Municipal Maurice.
She had nothing more to tell. This was the truth in all its force and simplicity.