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the paper, and if there be nothing absolutely untrue in it, put your
name to it."
"Read it yourself, Agatha," said he, "and if you then tell me to sign
it, I will do so."
Agatha took up the paper which Santerre had written, and read, but not
aloud, the following words:
"I hereby proclaim myself a true son of the Republic, and a citizen
brother of all free Frenchmen. I declare that I have never carried arms
against the Convention myself, and demand that I may not be accounted
responsible for any misguided members of my family, who may have done
so."
Twice Agatha read the words, and as she did so, her father's eyes rested
anxiously on her face. "Well, my child," said he, "your father's honour
is in your hands; tell me what I am to do," and he mechanically held the
pen within his fingers, which Santerre had thrust into his hand.
"We will die, father," said she, "if these men please it," and she put
down the document on the table on which it had been written. "I cannot
ask you to denounce our dear, our gallant Henri.


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