The Breton turned toward him who had just spoken.
“If they get themselves killed like their predecessors,” said he, “what more can you ask of them?”
“Well answered,” said Morgan, “so that—”
“So that, as soon as our general has your reply,” answered the peasant, “he will take up arms again.”
“And suppose our reply had been in the negative?” asked another voice.
“So much the worse for you,” replied the peasant; “in any case the insurrection is fixed for October 20.”
“Well,” said the president, “thanks to us, the general will have the wherewithal for his first month’s pay. Where is your receipt?”
“Here,” said the peasant, drawing a paper from his pocket on which were written these words:
Received from our brothers of the Midi and the East, to be
employed for the good of the cause, the sum of....
GEORGES CADOUDAL,
General commanding the Royalist army of Brittany.
The sum was left blank.