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The Doctor had taken care that it should be there--had assured

him that it would be there--and at this stage of the proceedings

it was produced and read. Citizen Gabelle was called to confirm

it, and did so. Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy

and politeness, that in the pressure of business imposed on the

Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which

it had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of

the Abbaye--in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's

patriotic remembrance--until three days ago; when he had been

summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's

declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him

was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen

Evremonde, called Darnay.