At last, in his dark cell, Jacques de Boiscoran saw the day break that
was to decide his fate.
He was to be tried to-day.
The occasion was, of course, too good to be neglected by “The Sauveterre
Independent.” Although a morning paper, it published, “in view of
the gravity of the circumstances,” an evening edition, which a dozen
newsboys cried out in the streets up to mid-night. And this was what it
said,--