Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-15
eHAPTER VIZ.
The Baroness again. Lettres de Cachet. Th'
Marquis de Las .AmdrillaS. Richard h'
FeOdist and HE Pearl Of ROuen.

''Laught in he act I" said the commissioner Of
Parliament in severe tone. "Speak, sirs,
what are you doing here at this h our?"
"They came to steal a family treasure," re-
piled the triumphant baroness; Monsieur Ex-
empt, you know your duty"
zone moment, Madame returned Manuel,
as calm as usual: "far from wishing to escape
the authority of the laws, it is under their pro-
lection that Idesre 10 place myself, demanding
to be interrOgated Immediately, and only en-
Treating the counsellor Of the sovereign court Of
Rouen to hear me in my room."
This favor having been granted him, they all
assembled tumutuously to the second story, from
which was just descending, half dead with fear
poor Paquerette, whom anxiety had kept awake
all night. To complete her uneasiness and
Richards despair, The commissary of Parlia'
ment began by informing her father, that by the
terms of the letires de cdchet, brought from Ver-
sailles by the mousguetdire rouge, he was to be
put in the l'astie, and his daughter in a convent
Ito be chosen by the Baroness.
But, without mar ifestng the slightest emo.
tion, the latter asked the name which the lettTe
de cachet bors.
"The name of Manuel" replied at once tht
counsellor, he exempt and the Baroness.
'Then these letters concern neither my
daughter ror myself"
"What then is your name, Monsieur?''
"This document will inform YOU" replied he
, drawing from his pocket-book parchment scale,
. with the arms Of Spain.
"Tho Marquis dc Las Alnariilas y
"FAvoy of His Catholic Maiesty!"
ga Marquis !'' involuntarily exclaimed tn
Baroness and her son.
/ 'Yes, Madame d. Ambreville, yes Sir Baron
4 II a.,
tin as Yourselves pos this title, and hope
g to hold ii more worthily than barons who run af
ler treasures. Read, sir, continued he, addres
4 sing the counsellor with an accent of Spanis
pride and you will see why concealed mysel
: SO long under the name of one of my ancestor,
, why that might recover an immense source
riches which Spain had lost, l sought this col
, fer"
; Instead of reading it, the counsellor of Pa
lament folded the parchment and respectful
5 handed it to the Marquis. The latter then too
"a key from secret corner of his pocket-bool
opened the iron casket, and showing steel pla
which it contained said:
''This is the plan, lost for two hundred year
of one of the richest diamond mines in the Ne
J World. We know the country; our ancestor
had transmitted the key of the Golfer from az
9 to age; but had not my wife's uncle found Il
t lost document necessary TO this discover
g and had not this young man deciphered it,
should still have been ignorant in what spot, Il
2 branch of our family who possessed half of q
secret, had hid the Golfer"
After this explanation, Justice having nothil
more to do, its agents retired, the exempt pr
senting his apologies, and the d Ambrevill
9 with profound reverences and the Parliament
ry commissioner, after having assured the Ma
: Iquis of his most profound consideration.
1t The Marquis closed the door and looked
: Paquerette and Richard. They were be
g weeping silently, she at being so rich and mob
l. and he because he was neither.
n The Marquis de Las Amarillas contemplat
r, them few moments, impossible and mute; thu
ID taking their hands, joined them beneath the p'
l. trait Of dazzling beauty, saying to Richard:
III 81 promised you the Pearl OF Rouen; boz
IS geois or Marquis, Spaniard always keeps
le word"