Beville watched over St.Georges.
When the work was finished a suspicious incident occurred, which greatly resembled a treason within a treason.

To a traitor a greater traitor.
This species of crime is subject to such accidents.

Beville and St.
Georges, the two trusty confidants in whose hands lay the secret of the _coup d'etat_, that is to say the head of the President;--that secret, which ought at no price to be allowed to transpire before the appointed hour, under risk of causing everything to miscarry, took it into their heads to confide it at once to two hundred men, in order "to test the effect," as the ex-Colonel Beville said later on, rather naively.

They read the mysterious document which had just been printed to the Gendarmes Mobiles, who were drawn up in the courtyard.

These ex-municipal guards applauded.