Connecticut western news., 1881-11-09

| public occasions when it would have been most appropriate; when it's gor- geous lustre would have decked her most becomingly.
 The necklace was to be paid for in installments; and when the first was due the Countess visited the Cardinal and informed him that the Queen was com pelled to defer payment. The Cardinal saw the jewellers, who were not satisfied at the delay. Their creditors were pressing them, and their need of the money was great. -a, Meeting Mime. Oampan, Bohmer, one of the jewellers, told her of the pnr1 chase made by the Queen. She cleo, trifed him by asserting positively that the necklace was not in the Queens pos session and never had been.
 The necklace contained 629 diamonds, all of rare beauty and many very large. The De Ia Mottes. picking it to pieces, prepared to sell the stones. Vilette, the young man who wrote the letters, was sent with some of the diamonds to sell. While thus engaged he was ar- rested on suspicion of having stolen them, but, as nothing could be proved against him, he was released. The chief conspirator succeeded in disposing of many, and her husband had similar good luck in England.
 And now "the winter of her discon- tent vanished, and the Countess pre- pared to live as daughter of the house of Valois should. She furnished her house in regal style. The hangings to her bed were silver velvet trimmed with gold lace and fringe, and embroidered in gold thread and spangles, and her coverlet was worked in pearls. Her stables were filled with horses; she had fine carriages silver bells were at- tached to her horses when she rode out; she had outriders; her coffers glittered with rare jewels, and her attire was worthy of the Queen herself. She was now living at her old home, Bar-Sur- Aube-living there like princess where she had once lived as beggar child.
 But the storm was gathering that was to break upon her, for Mme. Campan had informed the Queen of her purchase, made in her name by the Cardinal de Rohan. One day, as arrayed in his pon- tifical robes he was about to celebrate 8 church festival in the chapel of Yer sailles, he was summoned to attend the King in his private cabinet. On being questioned by the King as to who gave him the authority to purchase the neck lace for the Queen, he replied: GA lady called the Countess de Ia Motte Valois, who handed me letter from the Queen, and thought I was performing my duty to Her Majesty when I undertook this negotiation"
 Glow, sir," said the Queen, ''could you believe should select you, to whom have not spoken these eight years, to negotiate anything for me, and espe- cially through the mediation of such g woman-a woman. too, whom do not even know?" ..z.....s.+ / ..
 The Cardinal evidently thought that
 the Queen was only playing part in
 the presence of her husband, and he
 felt some contempt for her cowardice in
 trying to screen herself from blame in
 the transaction. However, he soon be-
 came convinced that he had been made
 dupe of, and confessing the same, de-
 clared his willingness to pay for the
 necklace. This did not save him from
 punishment, however, and, in spite of
 his protests, he was arrested in his sa- cred robes and thrown into the Bastile.
 When the guilty Countess heard the ) news of the Cardinals arrest she was al dinner party at Clairvaux, where the } abbot was entertaining some of hls , friends. She almost tainted, as we'll she might, and rushed from the table in ev. ident dismay. She was arrested the } next morning and carried to the Bastile while her husband wisely fled to Eng f land. The woman, Mademoisell' 5 dOivia, who personated the Queen il the garden scene. was arrested, as wa also the young man, Vilette, who wrote 8 the letters purporting to come from tn l, Queen.
 t The audacity of the Countess did no ]. desert her on her trial. She put bol' l. face on the matter and denied every e thing, trying to make it appear that tn d Cardinal was the guilty party. She wa o ever ready with the most plausible an e swers, and even denied the confession @ of vilette, saying that he was as innc 0 cent as she was herself. She was COG > and courageous, never at loss for a ), answer under the severest cross exam e ination, and bore herself proudly throug 10 the whole trial, as daughter of tn > house of Valois should do, of course l. Her assertions of innocence did not say 'e her, however, and she was borne to th 'e Conciergerie, where terrible punisl to ment awaited her.
 ' The Cardinal was acquitted, amid u 'n plaudits of the people; but the Kin
 demanded him to resign the office as Grand Almoner and the Orders that hs SC been conferred upon him, and to reti to to his abbey among the mountains ne Auvergne. .. ...... -r.. . "' Upon the Countess deservedly fell u Ao greatest punishment. She had plann, ne the whole affair, the others being h
 dupes and instruments. When her SC lal tence was read to her she went into GO n; vulsions. She was to be whipped al of branded on both shoulders with t he word "Voleuse "-thief. She was | ler the person to submit quietly to an A fiction like this. She screamed a ne struggled violently when the iron W