"What became of him?"
"Ever since then he has been at home, looking after the estate in his brothers' absence. He took no part whatever in the uprising, but occupied his leisure hours with painting and music, and in teaching my little boy. He is still at home."
"Did you not raise and maintain at your own cost a battalion of volunteers?"
"Yes; two hundred cavalry and three hundred infantry. At the battle of Kápolna I led the cavalry in person."
"You are anticipating the prosecution. Were you present at the Debreczen diet?"
"As one cannot be in two places at the same time, I was not."
"At the battle of Forro did you not exert yourself in rallying the routed forces of the rebels?"
"Yes, I did."
Jenő had committed himself unnecessarily. He seemed not merely unconcerned as to his fate, but even eager to meet it. The judge-advocate sought to test him. Searching among his papers, he finally looked up and said:
"The charge is here made against you that in the expedition among the mountains you seized and appropriated to your own use all the bullion stored in the public mints."