Representative Arbey was warmly protesting. As he raised his voice, Colonel Garderens cut him short with these words, which are worthy of preservation,—
"Hold your tongue! One word more, and I will have you thrashed with the butt-end of a musket."
The three Representatives of the Left indignantly called on the Colonel to release their colleagues.
"Colonel," said Fayolle, "You break the law threefold."
"I will break it sixfold," answered the Colonel, and he arrested Fayolle, Durrieu, and Teillard-Latérisse.
The soldiery were ordered to conduct them to the guard house of the Palace then being built for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On the way the six prisoners, marching between a double file of bayonets, met three of their colleagues Representatives Eugène Sue, Chanay, and Benoist (du Rhône).
Eugène Sue placed himself before the officer who commanded the detachment, and said to him,—
"We summon you to set our colleagues at liberty."
"I cannot do so," answered the officer.