But from the angry crowd rose the cry:
"Enough! Enough!"
One voice, deep and rumbling with an accent of doom, made itself heard:
"We give the right of speech to a citoyen to defend himself, not to a criminal to recite his crimes!"
Goursac, mounting to the tribune, secured a lull.
"You have recited these executions," he cried, addressing Javogues. "By what authority did you constitute yourself a judge?"
Javogues, opening his arms, said:
"By the authority of popular justice."
"Where is your warrant?"
The Marseillais did not answer. The section, seeing where he was being led, kept an intense silence as Goursac's voice, rising in denunciation, continued: