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 this circumstance to pass himself as a victim of the men of the 18th of March.

A few days after order was restored, as he was about to return one evening to his home, he perceived two men who seemed to be awaiting his approach.

With the instinct peculiar to people of his kind, he instantly recognized them as agents of the police, to whom, in fact, mission had been given to capture him.

A battalion of the line was camped not far from the spot. Langellé ran to find an officer, and with his order of arrest under the Commune in his hand, endeavored to persuade him that two insurgents were waiting to avenge themselves for his defection by doing him an evil turn.

The officer pretended to be convinced, and a platoon of the line went immediately to arrest the two men; but when Langellé wished to withdraw, he was politely requested to accompany them. They went together to the commissary of police, when the true state of things was discovered.

There are at present imprisoned at Versailles but fourteen members of the Commune. This is all that remain of that odious government which counted no less that one hundred and fifteen persons; one hundred and one have disappeared, and are either killed or have succeeded in making their escape.

Those who remain are: Régère, Ferré, Assi, Rastoul, Courbet, Urbain, Paschal Grousset, Jourde, Trinquet, Arnold, Billioray, Verdure, Ulysse Parent and Descamps.

This last had been also for some time imprisoned under an assumed name; not until six weeks after his capture was the fraud discovered.

Razoua, another member of the Commune, has just been arrested in Geneva; his extradition will probably be demanded by the French Government.