"But, after all," my interlocutor said to me with a gesture of
impatience, "may I know in what I can assist you?"

"Thus, sir. Four of these young men, leaders of the Companions
of Jehu, were executed at Bourg, on the Place du Bastion."

"In the first place, sir, in Bourg executions do not take place
at the Bastion; they execute on the Fair grounds."

"Now, sir--these last fifteen or twenty years, it is true--since
Peytel. But before, especially during the Revolution, they executed
on the Place du Bastion."

"That is possible."

"It is so. These four young men were called Guyon, Lepretre, Amiet,
and Hyvert."

"This is the first time I have heard those names."

"Yet their names made a certain noise at Bourg."

"Are you sure, sir, that these men were executed here?"

"I am positive."

"From whom have you derived your information?"

"From a man whose uncle, then in command of the gendarmerie, was