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that you

ye done to your country is immense

The re-

Do you desire to be em-

ployed under my government
" I only want to go back to my wife," murmured Rifolt.
" I have since this morning calmed the uneasiness that

your Utsuppcaz aut.. uus causeu uer. aue knows that you are
detained by my orders. You do not speak—you hesitate.
Come. 1 see that the word police' intimidates you—l can

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Rtfole returned home with one hundred notes of one thou-
sand francs buried at the bottom of his breast pocket. He
threw himself into the arms of his wife, and began to cry and
sob without having the power to reply to the interrogations
addressed to him by her. When he had a little recovered
his sangfroid, the fair questioner did not find she advanced
much further. Rifle, ignorant of the motives of his arrest,
knew still less why the minister had so richly recompensed
him in the name of the emperor. The reproaches of the
unfortunate but brave Englisman—the questions of the ge-
neral—the Council of War—appeared to him as so many
problems to resolve, and seemed to him more the results of
nightmare than of reality-
Agatha contrived to throw him into a state of greaterueasst:
tonishment, when she informed him that theirhyo_t!
the handsome fair young man who had hired the lnigtnttegroom
adjoining their apartment, had not appear dd ri the last

two days.
This absence being prolonged a month, the tailor and his
wife visited the chamber of the stranger.
They found therein a great quantity of papers, from which

Rifole took a packet to his protee or—the Duke of Otianto—
aopina thereby to obtain some tidings of his lodger.

What the deuce of a man art thou ?" cried the minister,
as he cast his eyes on the papers. " During the last t‘i o
,nonths we have in vain endeavoured to trace these documents,
taken out of the emperor's cabinet, and you bring them back
to me !"
Rifole related his history and that of his absent guest.
The Duke of Otranto listened in silence. When the tailor
had concluded—
" Come," id .‘.%e statestoar,
has brought abo t

said the statesman, " I see that chance alone
affair. I took you for a lad of
• simpleton. To think
I respecting the manner
session of those paper
treason and the spy !
m most adroitly from his
bills : but if ever you

Lfter all

spirit, and you tt
that it never
in which you found yours,.
measures which have revealed tome Of
I fancied that you had stolen thP—
dwelling. Her. --

re some

open your mouth respecting this affair, remember Vin-
ilennpc

Rifole, rich, being of a quiet disposition, then ended his con-
nection with the ancient pupil of the Pere Lornhois, pros-
pered exceedingly, and became one of the most renowned
tailors in Paris, and now possesses rich property in Lorraine,
where he figures away like a grand Seigneur,

CRAP. VIII.-A WORD OF EXPLANATION.
Now, to render this history altogether intelligible, as yet a
little confused, explanations become necessary.
The Emperor Napoleon had always near him a certain
number of secretaries, attached to his person, who worked
in a closet next to his own. At the time of the adventure of
which we write, Baron Monnier, Baron Fain, and many
others, took part in the service.

Now, amongst the translators entrusted to put before the
eyes of Napoleon the extracts of foreign journals, there w-
a fine young man, whose distinguished manners and 010.
disposition gained for him the respect of his colleagues.
The first at his labour—he never quitted the closet until
after the others bad left. The Emperor was pleased with
the concise and clear mode in which the young man trans-
lated and summed up the English journals. Many times
had he expressed to him his satisfaction.
It happened one morning the secretaries of Napoleon Faye
with surprise the stranger's seat remain unoccupied.
joked amongst themselves upon the unprecedented circum-
stance.

The day passed without the Englishman appearins
day, and the next to that, his place continued empty.
Full of uneasiness the young people repaired to the Rue
de la Universit6 to the house of their comrade. He had not
been home for two days. One of them ran to the Minister
of Police, and communicated to him the uneasiness which had
been caused by a disaearance so strange.
" Sir," said the Due d'Otranto, " do not trouble yourself
any more about the affair. The Englishman respecting whom
you interest yourself so warmly, is a villain ! a villain. Yes !
a spy in the pay of England ; not only has he abused the
confidence of the Emperor, and falsified the passages in the
journals which he translated for his majesty, but be has even
stolen the cabinet secrets, and sold them to the most mortal
enemies of France!:

If we add that to lull suspicion and to avoid having at home
any dangerous paper, the English spy had rented under the
supposed name of Dubois, the little room attached to the
apartment of Rifole; if we yet add that Agatha had given to
her husband the first piece of paper which came to hand,
wherewith to make a measure, and on which was one of the
most flagrant proofs of the Englishman's treason, all will be
explained.
Rifole even now talks of Pouches liberality as a mystery
—for the life of him he cannot make out the reason of his
profuseness.