"Oh, if I had but two or three hundred English soldiers here we would make mincemeat of these murderers!" Harry did not enter La Force, where the scenes that were taking place at the Abbaye--for, in spite of the speed with which the mock trials were hurried through, these massacres were not yet finished there, so great was the number of prisoners--were repeated.
At La Force many ladies were imprisoned, among them the Princess de Lamballe.

They shared the fate of the male prisoners, being hewn to pieces by sabres.

The head of the princess was cut off and stuck upon a pike, and was carried in triumph under the windows of the Temple, where the king and queen were confined, and was held up to the bars of the room they occupied for them to see.

Marie Antoinette, fearless for herself, fainted at the terrible sight of the pale head of her friend.
Harry remained at a little distance from La Force, tramping restlessly up and down, half-mad with rage and horror, and at his powerlessness to interfere in any way with the proceedings of the wretches who were carrying on the work of murder.

At last, about eight o'clock in the morning, a boy ran by.
"They have finished with them at the Abbaye," he said with fiendish glee.