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It was only later on that the persons who were in the
secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of
those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decuri-
ons, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a fe,
which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832. Under each
capital letter were inscribed names followed by very char-
acteristic notes. Thus: Q. Bannerel. 8 guns, 83 cartridges. A
safe man.—C. Boubiere. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.—D. Rollet.
1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.— E. Tessier. 1 sword, 1
cartridge-box. Exact.—Terreur. 8 guns. Brave, etc.
Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclo-
sure, a third paper on which was written in pencil, but very
legibly, this sort of enigmatical list:—

Unite: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6.
Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte.
Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher?
J. J. R.
Caius Gracchus.
Right of revision. Dufond. Four.
Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuee.
Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges.
Marseillaise.
Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword.
Hoche.
Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec.
Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the Populaire.

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