text:  On my being marched up to the foot of the platform between two frightful-looking ruffians whose coats and trousers seemed to have been dyed in gore to show that they were worthy of the murders of September and who to make "assurance doubly sure " wore on their sword-belts the word "September " painted in broad characters I remained for a while unquestioned until they turned over a pile of names which they had flung on the table before them