A few moments afterwards the Commissary of the fort appeared, and in polite phrases, which, however, savored somewhat of authority, invited each of the Representatives of the People to declare his name in order that each might be allotted to his ultimate destination. A shout of indignation answered him. "No one! No one will give his name," said General Oudinot. Gustave de Beaumont added,-- "We all bear the same name: Representatives of the People." The Commissary saluted them and went away. After two hours he came back. He was accompanied this time by the Chief of the Ushers of the Assembly, a man named Duponceau, a species of arrogant fellow with a red face and white hair, who on grand days strutted at the foot of the Tribune with a silvered collar, a chain over his stomach, and a sword between his legs. The Commissary said to Duponceau,--"Do your duty." What the Commissary meant, and what Duponceau understood by this word _duty_, was that the Usher should denounce the Legislators. Like the lackey who betrays his masters. It was done in this manner. This Duponceau dared to look in the faces of the Representatives by turn, and he named them one after the other to a policeman, who took notes of them. The Sieur Duponceau was sharply castigated while holding this review. "M. Duponceau," said M. Vatimesnil to him, "I always thought you an idiot, but I believed you to be an honest man." The severest rebuke was administered by Antony Thouret. He looked Sieur Duponceau in the face, and said to him, "You deserve to be named Dupin." The Usher in truth was worthy of being the President, and the President was worthy of being the Usher. The flock having been counted, the classification having been made, there were found to be thirteen goats: ten Representatives of the Left; Eugène Sue, Esquires, Antony Thouret, Pascal Duprat, Chanay, Fayolle, Paulin Durrien, Benoit, Tamisier, Tailard Latérisse, and three members of the Right, who since the preceding day had suddenly become Red in the eyes of the _coups d'état_; Oudinot, Piscatory, and Thuriot de la Rosière. They confined these separately, and they set at liberty one by one the forty who remained. CHAPTER IX. THE LIGHTNING BEGINS TO FLASH AMONGST THE PEOPLE The evening wore a threatening aspect.