Fetch a stirrup-
leather, and do you hold him, and let one of the grooms give him
a dozen on that foot."
But at that he gave way; he flung himself on his knees, screaming
for mercy.
"The list!" I said,
"I have no list! I have none!" he wailed.
"Then give it me out of your head. Curtin, how much?"
He glanced at the man I named, and shivered, and for a moment was
silent. But one of the grooms approaching with the stirrup-
leather, he found his voice. "Forty crowns," he muttered.
"Fonvelle?"
"The same."
I made him confess also the sums which he had received from
Lescaut and Philippon, and then the names of seven others who had
been in the habit of bribing him. Satisfied that he had so far
told the truth, I bade him put on his stocking and shoe. "And
now," I said to Boisrueil, when this was done, "take him to the
whipping-post there, and tie him up; and see that each man of the
eleven gives him a stripe for every crown with which he has
bribed him--and good ones, or I will have them tied up in his
place.
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