Police agents stationed themselves at a table between two candles in a parlor at the foot of the stairs, and the Representatives were summoned two by two.
The Representatives agreed not to answer to their names, and to reply to each name which should be called out, "He is not here." But those "Burgraves" who had accepted the hospitality of Colonel Feray considered such petty resistance unworthy of them, and answered to the calling out of their names.

This drew the others after them.

Everybody answered.
Amongst the Legitimists some serio-comic scenes were enacted.

They who alone were not threatened insisted on believing that they were in danger.
They would not let one of their orators go.

They embraced him, and held him back, almost with tears, crying out, "Do not go away! Do you know where they are taking you?
Think of the trenches of Vincennes!" The Representatives, having been summoned two by two, as we have just said, filed in the parlor before the police agents, and then they were ordered to get into the "robbers' box." The stowage was apparently made at haphazard and promiscuously; nevertheless, later, by the difference of the treatment accorded to the Representatives in the various prisons, it was apparent that this promiscuous loading had perhaps been somewhat prearranged.