"Who accuses me?"
"I accuse you."
"And I."
Dossonville turned, met the angry eyes of Javogues, and seeking the second speaker, recognized one of those who had arrested him. He turned to the tribunal.
"The witnesses are mistaken. I was not at the Tuileries."
His accusers burst into a roar of denunciation, but Maillard, quelling them, said quietly:
"That should not be difficult to prove. With whom were you on the tenth day of August?"
Dossonville nodded his head in assent. Then, seeing the trap into which he was being led, he asked:
"First, does not that register relate that on my arrest I claimed an alibi with the Citoyen Marat and later renounced it at this prison, giving as a reason that I used it as a protection to insure my reaching prison and a trial?"