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"Certainly; and that is precisely what they did. But see if the

devil did not carry them there. When they came on the Cordusio,

they saw the baker that they had wanted to plunder the day

before; and what do you think they were doing at this baker's?

They were distributing bread to purchasers; the first gentlemen

of the land were there, watching over its distribution. The mob,

instigated by the devil, rushed upon them furiously, and, in the

twinkling of an eye, gentlemen, bakers, purchasers, bread,

counters, benches, loaves, bags, flour, all topsy-turvy."

"And the musketeers?"