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Is this your carriage?"
Yes."
Get in at once, and pull down the blinds."
What do you mean?"
You are the Representative Gindrier. I know you. You were this morning
on the barricade. If any other than myself should see you, you are
lost."
Gindrier followed his advice and got into the fiacre. While getting in
he asked the man:
"Do you belong to the Police?"
The man did not answer. A moment after he came and said in a low voice,
near the door of the fiacre in which Gindrier was enclosed,--
"Yes, I eat the bread, but I do not do the work."
The two men sent by the Commissary of Police took Baudin on his wooden
bed and carried him to the fiacre. They placed him at the bottom of
the fiacre with his face covered, and enveloped from head to foot in a
shroud. A workman who was there lent his cloak, which was thrown over
the corpse in order not to attract the notice of passers-by. Madame L----
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