Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-02

talked In lively strain observed without appear
ing to do So chatted with several persons and
after staying an houE terminating his visit hetook
Il Count Demidof aside, and said to him:
g Y on must give dinner party tomorrow, tc
which you naustinvite dozen of your acquain,
tances. Invite whom you please, but insist that
the Baroness Won Schwickel be one, and that you
send me an invitation for the Chevaier de Santa
Cruz"
h "Who is that Chevalier don't know him %
"The Chevalier de Santa-Cruz is well-bred
tSpaniard. If you had rather have an Englishman
he shall be Lord Wimore if you prefer the Ital-
ian he shall be the Marquis de Favianti. In a
word, the Chevalier is one of my men whom en-
poy on great occasions he is perfectly accustom-
ed to society Be SO good as to seat him opposite
to the Baroness Won Schwickel. This is very i'm
portant"
"What you tool Do you suspect Has Prince
Galitzn spoken to you 2"
4" 1 see replied Fouche, smiling, that Monsieur
le Comte doubts my personal perspicacity but he
will not doubt my discretion. A denaGin done !
The Chevalier de Sauta Cruz will be exact and en-
ter into your dining room at six O'Clock precisely"
Accordingly, the next day, the dinner took
place Fouche had requested. The Chevalier de
Santa Cruz placed in front Of the Baroness, talked
great deal and observed no loss lie related
several stories of fashionable, noble, and titled la
dies, whom the love Of luxury, the passion Of gam
ing and the fascination of precious stones had led
to the preparation of robberies. The Baroness,
would not believe it. The Chevalier entered into
discussion with her, and had tact enough during
the of the argument to lay the most skilful
and best disguised traps for her. When they left
the table, the Chevalier went up to Count Demi-
doff and whispered in his ear:
Tomorrow you will have the diadem, or the
stones of it al the least. "
! Immediately after dinner most of the guests, the
ladies, had to dress for the ball which Marshal
Berthier gave that evening. The Baroness Won
Schwickel appeared there. She had never been
more beautiful, more agreeable, more witty; the
most brilliant men surrounded her, begged word
look from her, and proclaimed her the queen OF
the fete. Her success was prodlglous.
! Intoxicated with this triumph she had just
turned to her house. Rue du Helder No. 2. at the
corner of the Boulevard DIES 1taliens, and was a.
bout retiring to repose herself from the nights ia
tiguesin soft Sleep rocked by brilliant dreams, when
suddenly some one rang at the door of her room.
"Who can come here at this hour? Can it
be some mad enterprise of one of the young men
who told me at the ball that crazed them all 2"
! The bell rang again. and louder than the first
time and as the door remained closed magiste-
rial voice said in loud tone,
"Open in the name Of the law !"
The servant opened the door, and the Baroness
passed from very great trouble to an extreme sur
prise when she saw the Chevalier de Santa Cruz
walk in.
"What means this joker" asked the Baroness,
who, not knowing the quality of the before
her. had somewhat recovered from her first emo
ton.
"The most serious of motives brings here"
replied the Chevalier.
"Indeed? Have you happily come to relate to
another one of those stories you repeated to us
at dinner!"
"Yes, Madame; such another story brings me
7 viii ho fhal
heroine of it."
"What do you mean Monsieur?' replied the
Baroness, with an evidently increasing trouble.
81 am charged, Madame, with painful, but a
necessary mission. l have a search-warrant, and
orders to find the diamonds of the Countess Dem-
dofC"
ado they suspect lady like me, who"
Gail of the Countess acquaintance undergo
the same measure. There is no exception. I
therefore hope you will be good as not to offer
any opposition to our Searches.
The Baroness tried to resist, but the Chevaler
made a sign, and four stalwart policemen came
into the room.
"Must break into the wardrobes and furni-
ture 2" asked the Chevaler.
The Baroness surrendered the keys; every
thing was opened and searched, but nothing was
found.
There remained. however, a secretary, which
was still closed. The Chevalier asked for the key.
The Baroness, pale and trembling, replied that it
contained letters, ladies' secrets, which no one
should see.
The Chevalier promised that no papers should
be read but as the Baroness persisted in her re-
fllsal he made a new sign to one of his men, who
imm odiately, with quick and practiseL hand, in
troduced a small pick-lock in the key-hole and
secretary opened.
The Baroness staggered and fell half-dead into
an armchair.
The Chevalier took off his gloves, delcately put
aside the papers, and discovered crystal vase, in
which were two handfuls of emeralds and dia-
monds; the Jewels were detached from the diadem;
not single one was wanting.
The Baroness had tainted. The policemen
took her up and transported her, insensible and
in full costume to hack, which awaited them at
the door, and drove off towards the Prefecture de
Police.
You can understand what the emotion of
the Partisan world when it heard one of the most
brilliant ladies of society," intimate with the best
persons in the land, Baroness surrounded with
homages and adulations, one of the most beauti-
full, the most popular, and most feasted ladies of
Paris had stolen the diamonds of the Countess de
| Demidof.
! The trial soon came on. An eager crowd fol-
lowed every step of the proceedings. They dis
closed that, having taken the diadem during the
ball, the Baroness had attached it to her garter,
and began again to dance, to ally all suspicion,
assembling the trouble consequent to the deed