Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents
citizen Fouquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most
extraordinary claim:
"The dangerous English spy known to the world as the Scarlet
Pimpernel," he says, "is now safely under lock and key. He must be
transferred to the Abbaye prison forthwith -- and to the guillotine
as quickly as might be. No one is to take any risks this time.
There must be no question either of discrediting his famous League,
or of obtaining other more valuable information out of him. Such
methods have proved disastrous!"
There are no safe Englishmen these days, except the dead ones --
and it will not take citizen Fouquier-Tinville much thought or time
to frame an indictment against the notorious Scarlet Pimpernel . .
. and "that" will do away with the necessity of a prolonged trial.
The revolutionary government is at war with England now, and short
work can be made of all poisonous spies!
English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy
(1865-1947) achieved enduring success with her novels of politics
and intrigue set during the time of the French Revolution.
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