"And then?"
"Well, then he was arrested and brought before the conseil de guerre, found guilty, and degraded before the army."
"Did he confess that he wrote the bordereau?"
"No! On the contrary, he swore he had not, but the generals decided that he had. So he must have!"
"The generals may have been mistaken," I said. "Such things have happened."
"Oh no. It is impossible that these officers could have been mistaken."
"What did he say when he was accused?" I continued.
"I hardly think that he was told of what he was accused."
"Do you mean to say," I cried, "that he did not know that he was suspected of high treason?"
"He must have known that he wrote the bordereau," he replied.