We now come to MADAME COLOMBIER, _alias_ QUEEN CHRISTINA.--
"Do you know whether your comrades had many cartridges?"--"I do
not know exactly what the quantity was, but I heard a man say,
and, Madame Colombier _also boasted to another woman, that they
had worked very hard, and for some time past, at making
cartridges_."
Madame COLOMBIER, however, must cede in energy and boldness to the
reckless devilry of the Spanish ex-Queen; for the cartridges manufactured
by the wine-seller's wife were not to be discharged into the bed-room of
her own infant daughters! They were certain not to shed the blood of her
own children. Now the cartridges of the Rue de Courcelles were made for
any service.
One more extract from the confessions of QUENISSET (_alias_ DON LEON):--
"At the corner of the Rue Traversiere I saw Just, Auguste, and
several other young men, whom I had seen in the morning receiving
cartridges. Upon my asking whether the attack was to be made,
_Just answered, Yes_. He felt for his pistols; my comrade got his
ready under his blouse. I seized mine under my shirt.
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