All trace of illness, of infirmity, had gone from the valetudinarian; he stood erect on the floor, his face twitching convulsively, and his arms folded.

"Ho! Guerin!" the spy reappeared--"take these addresses! Within an hour this Englishman and his woman must be in prison; their revelations will aid me against worthier foes.

They shall die: they shall perish with the rest on the 10th,--the third day from this.

There!" and he wrote hastily,--"there, also, is thy warrant! Off! "And now, Couthon, Payan, we will dally no longer with Tallien and his crew.

I have information that the Convention will NOT attend the Fete on the 10th.