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This young man spoke to Charras.
"Colonel, you are about to leave the fortress, you are about to quit
France. I am instructed to have you conducted to the frontier."
Charras exclaimed,--
"
If I am to quit France I will not leave the fortress. This is yet
another outrage. They have no more the right to exile me than they had
the right to imprison me. I have on my side the Law, Right, my old
services, my commission. I protest. Who are you, sir?"
"
I am the Private Secretary of the Minister of the Interior."
Ah! it is you who are named Léopold Lehon."
"
The young man cast down his eyes.
Charras continued,--
"You come on the part of some one whom they call 'Minister of the
Interior,' M. de Morny, I believe. I know M. de Morny. A bald young man;
he has played the game where people lose their hair; and now he is
playing the game where people risk their heads."
The conversation was painful. The young man was deeply interested in the
toe of his boot.
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