"

It was a commissary of police.

And, whilst surrounded by agents, they were taken to a cab.

* * *

"Orphan on both sides!" exclaimed Mlle. Cesarine, "I am free, then.
Now we'll have some fun!"

At that very moment, M. de Tregars and Mlle. Gilberte reached the
Rue St. Gilles.

Hearing that her husband had been found,

"I must see him!" exclaimed Mme. Favoral.

And, in spite of any thing they could tell her, she threw a shawl
over her shoulders, and started with Mlle. Gilberte.

When they had entered Mme. Zelie's apartment, of which they had a
key, they found in the parlor, with his back towards them, Vincent
Favoral sitting at the table, leaning forward, and apparently
writing. Mme. Favoral approached on tiptoe, and over her husband's
shoulder she read what he had just written,

"Affrays, my beloved, eternally-adored mistress, will you forgive
me? The money that I was keeping for you, my darling, the proofs
which will crush your husband--they have taken every thing from me,
basely, by force. And it is my daughter--"

He had stopped there. Surprised at his immobility, Mme. Favoral
called,

"Vincent!"

He made no answer. She pushed him with her finger. He rolled to
the ground. He was dead.

Three months later the great Mutual Credit suit was tried before
the Sixth Court. The scandal was great; but public curiosity was
strangely disappointed. As in most of these financial affairs,
justice, whilst exposing the most audacious frauds, was not able
to unravel the true secret.

She managed, at least, to lay hands upon every thing that the
Baron de Thaller had hoped to save. That worthy was condemned to
five years' prison; M. Costeclar got off with three years; and M.
Jottras with two. M. Saint Pavin was acquitted.

Arrested for subornation of murder, the former Marquise de Javelle
the Baroness de Thaller, was released for want of proper proof. But,
implicated in the suit against her husband, she lost three-fourths
of her fortune, and is now living with her daughter, whose debut is
announced at the Bouffes-Parisiens, or at the Delassements-Comiques.

Already, before that time, Mlle. Lucienne, completely restored, had
married Maxence Favoral.

Of the five hundred thousand francs which were returned to her, she
applied three hundred thousand to discharge the debts of her
father-in-law, and with the rest she induced her husband to emigrate
to America. Paris had becom