the wood to change his shirt.  They all appeared to be very tired, and only two of them were on horseback.  They arrived at Lamotte’s house at Saint-Leu about two o’clock in the morning; the horses were stabled and the men stretched themselves out on the straw in one of the rooms of the house.  Lamotte noticed that each of them carried two pistols.  They slept long and had dinner about twelve o’clock.  Two individuals, who had driven from Paris and left their cabriolets, one at the “White Cross” the other at the “Crown,” talked with the travellers who, about seven o’clock, resumed their journey to the capital.  Each of the “individuals” took one in his cab; two went on horseback and the others awaited the phaeton which ran between Taverny and Paris.

This account tallied so well with Querelle’s declarations that there was no longer any room for doubt.  The band of seven was composed of Georges and his staff; the “stout man” was Georges himself, and Querelle gave the names of the others, all skilful and formidable Chouans.  Lamotte, on his part, did not hesitate to name the one who had conducted the “brigands” to the wood of La Muette.  He was called Nicolas Massignon, a farmer of Jouy-le-Comte.  Pasque set out with his gendarmes, and Massignon admitted that he had brought the travellers from across the Oise to the Avenue de Nesles, his brother, Jean-Baptiste Massignon, a farmer of Saint-Lubin, having conducted them thither.  Pasque immediately took the road to Saint-Lubin and marched all night.  At four o’clock in the morning he arrived at the house of Jean-Baptiste, who, surprised in jumping out of bed, remembered that he had put up some men that his brother-in-law, Quentin-Rigaud, a cultivator at Auteuil, had brought there.  Pasque now held four links of the chain, and Manginot started for the country to follow the track of the conspirators to the sea.  Savary had preceded him in order to surprise a new disembarkation announced by Querelle.  Arrived at the coast he perceived, at some distance, an English brig tacking, but in spite of all their precautions to prevent her taking alarm, the vessel did not come in.  They saw her depart on a signal given on shore by a young man on horseback, whom Savary’s gendarmes pursued as far as the forest of Eu, where he disappeared.

In twelve days, always accompanied by Querelle, Manginot had ended his quest, and put into the hands of Real such a mass of depositions that it was possible, as we shall show, to reconstruct the voyage of Georges and his companions to Paris from the sea.

On the night of August 23, 1803, the English cutter “Vincejo,” commanded by Captain Wright, had landed the conspirators at the foot of the cliffs of Biville, a steep wall of rocks and clay three hundred and twenty feet high.  From time immemorial, in the place called the hollow of Parfonval there had existed an “estamperche,” a long cord fixed to some piles, which was used by the country people for descending to the beach.  It was necessary