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Here is money . '' In a quarter of an hour the man returned , and Edgar , after eating a hearty breakfast and drinking a quart of milk , felt greatly better . He now entered the town . There were no signs of renewed fighting , and listening to the talk of the officers near the headquarters , he gathered that Bonaparte had granted a pardon to the inhabitants , but that the prisoners taken in the attack on Fort Dupres , among whom were many of those most deeply concerned in the rising , were to be tried at ten o'clock by court-martial , and that probably a great part of them would be shot . Hiring a donkey , for he still felt weak , Edgar rode out to the citadel . He found the town gate open , as Napoleon , to show his contempt for the population and his perfect confidence that they would not venture to rise again , had ordered everything to go on as usual . Paying the donkey-boy when within a short distance of the citadel , he sat down on a block of stone a little way off the road , and waited for the hour when the court-martial was to open .