n the blind tool of her husband."

From motives of delicacy the evidence of this gentleman was read in
his presence; he was not examined orally. His eulogy of his mistress
is loyal. Against it may be set the words of the Procureur de la
Republique, M. Delegorgue: "Never has a more thorough-paced, a more
hideous monster been seated in the dock of an assize court. This woman
is the personification of falsehood, depravity, cowardice and treachery.
She is worthy of the supreme penalty." The jury were not of this
opinion. They preferred to regard Mme. Fenayrou as playing a secondary
part to that of her husband. They accorded in both her case and that
of Lucien extenuating circumstances. The woman was sentenced to penal
servitude for life, Lucien to seven years. Fenayrou, for whose conduct
the jury could find no extenuation, was condemned to death.

It is the custom in certain assize towns for the President, after
pronouncing sentence, to visit a prisoner who had been ordered for
execution. M. Berard des Glajeux describes his visit to Fenayrou at
Versailles. He was already in prison dress, sobbing.

His iron nature, which during five days had never flinched, had
broken down; but it was not for himself he wept, but for his wife, his
children, his brother; of his own fate he took no account. At the same
moment his wife was in the lodge of the courthouse waiting for the cab
that was to take her to her prison. Freed from the anxieties of the
trial, knowing her life to be spared, without so much as a thought for
the husband whom she had never loved, she had tidied herself up, and
now, with all the ease of a woman, whose misfortunes have not destroyed
her self-possession, was doing the honours of the jail. It was she who
received her judge.

But Fenayrou was not to die. The Court of Cassation, to which he had
made the usual appeal after condemnation, decided that the proceedings
at Versailles had been vitiated by the fact that the evidence of
Gabrielle Fenayrou's second lover had not been taken ORALLY, within the
requirements of the criminal code; consequently a new trial was ordered
before the Paris Assize Court. This second trial, which commenced on
October 12, saved Fenayrou's head. The Parisian jury showed themselves
more lenient than their colleagues at Versailles. Not only was Fenayrou
accorded extenuating circumstances, but Lucien was acquitted altogether.
The only person to whom these new proceedings brought no benefit w