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That, hereupon he had ascertained, through the registers on the

table, that his son-in-law was among the living prisoners, and

had pleaded hard to the Tribunal--of whom some members were

asleep and some awake, some dirty with murder and some clean,

some sober and some not--for his life and liberty. That, in the

first frantic greetings lavished on himself as a notable sufferer

under the overthrown system, it had been accorded to him to have

Charles Darnay brought before the lawless Court, and examined.

That, he seemed on the point of being at once released, when the

tide in his favour met with some unexplained check (not

intelligible to the Doctor), which led to a few words of secret

conference. That, the man sitting as President had then informed

Doctor Manette that the prisoner must remain in custody, but

should, for his sake, be held inviolate in safe custody.