made the steward of his
estate and managed it with such shrewdness and intelligence that Philip
became rich and all the prestige of the Chamondrins was restored.

In the month of May, 1822, while in Paris, to which city he had been
called by important business, the Marquis de Chamondrin met an old
nobleman who had been a fellow prisoner in the Conciergerie. They talked
together a long time over the past and the frenzy, perils and heroism
which had stamped those eventful days, and a chance word, let fall by
his companion, first acquainted Philip with the fact that Dolores had
endeavored to sacrifice her own life in order to save that of Antoinette
de Mirandol. The Marquis de Chamondrin turned pale as death and pressed
his hand convulsively against his heart, but he speedily recovered his
color and self-possession and the old nobleman did not even suspect the
emotion to which his revelation had given rise.

Philip never mentioned the knowledge he had acquired to his wife, but
his love and reverence for her were vastly augmented by it, and,
whenever he thought of the sacrifice that God in His mercy had not
permitted to be made, he murmured to himself:

"Dolores has a noble and heroic soul! An angel from Heaven could not
have acted more grandly!"

THE END.

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