one's enemies, one must profit by it; good opportunities are
rare.

These eighty people were huddled into the Trouillas Tower.
Historically it is known as the Tower de la Glaciere; but why
change this name of the Trouillas Tower? The name is unclean
and harmonizes well with the unclean deed which was now to be
perpetrated there.

It had been the scene of the inquisitorial tortures. One can
still see on the walls the greasy soot which rose from the smoke
of the funeral pyre where human bodies were consumed. They still
show you to-day the instruments of torture which they have carefully
preserved--the caldron, the oven, the wooden horse, the chains,
the dungeons, and even the rotten bones. Nothing is wanting.

It was in this tower, built by Clement V., that they now confined
the eighty prisoners. These eighty men, once arrested and locked
up in the Trouillas Tower, became most embarrassing. Who was
to judge them? There were no legally constituted courts except
those of the Pope. Could they kill these unfortunates as they
had killed Lescuyer?

We have said that a third, perhaps half of them, had not only
taken no part in the murder, but had not even set foot in the
church. How should they kill them? The killing must be placed
upon the basis of reprisals. But the killing of these eighty
people required a certain number of executioners.

A species of tribunal was improvised by Jourdan and held session