noiseless and fatal sleep。 Thus was he wont to laugh at the police； deeming capture a plain impossibility。 The traitor； in sooth； was his single； irremediable fear； and if ever suspicion was aroused against a member of the gang； that member was put to death with the shortest shrift。
It happened in the last year of Cartouche's supremacy that a lily…livered comrade fell in love with a pretty dressmaker。 The indiscretion was the less pardonable since the dressmaker had a horror of theft； and impudently tried to turn her lover from his trade。 Cartouche； discovering the backslider； resolved upon a public exhibition。 Before the assembled band he charged the miscreant with treason； and； cutting his throat； disfigured his face beyond recognition。 Thereafter he pinned to the corse the following inscription； that others might be warned by so monstrous an example： ‘Ci git Jean Rebti； qui a eu le traitement qu'il m