"Lorin!" cried Maurice, "Oh, my God! what has happened?"
This scene took place the same day that Lorin had been arrested, and Maurice was in utter ignorance of the fact.
"Lorin!" murmured Geneviève, looking round with anxious solicitude.
"Why does not the witness answer to the call?" demanded the president.
"Citizen President," said Fouquier Tinville, "upon a recent denunciation the witness was arrested at his own house; he will be brought directly."
Maurice started.
"There is another still more important witness," continued Fouquier; "but we have not yet been able to find him."
Dixmer turned toward Maurice smiling. Perhaps the same idea flitted through the mind of the husband which had before entered that of the lover.
Geneviève, pale and horror-stricken, uttered a low groan.
At this moment Lorin entered, followed by two gendarmes.