"Have you anything to say before sentence is passed?"
"Nothing," Gurn replied.
In rapid tones the President read the formal pronouncement of the Court. It seemed horribly long and unintelligible, but presently the President's voice became slower as it reached the fatal words: there was a second's pause, and then he reached the point:
"—the sentence on the prisoner Gurn is death."
And almost simultaneously he gave the order:
"Guards, take the condemned away!"
Juve, who had returned to court with Fandor, spoke to the young journalist.
"'Gad!" he exclaimed, "I know what pluck is. That man is a truly remarkable man: he never turned a hair!"