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THE CERTIFICATE OF SAFETY.
"You can leave de Batz and his gang alone, citizen Heron," said Chauvelin, as soon as he had closed the door behind him; "he had nothing to do with the escape of the Dauphin." Heron growled out a few words of incredulity.

But Chauvelin shrugged his shoulders and looked with unutterable contempt on his colleague.

Armand, who was watching him closely, saw that in his hand he held a small piece of paper, which he had crushed into a shapeless mass.
"Do not waste your time, citizen," he said, "in raging against an empty wind-bag.

Arrest de Batz if you like, or leave him alone an you please--we have nothing to fear from that braggart." With nervous, slightly shaking fingers he set to work to smooth out the scrap of paper which he held.