The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-09

Suddenly q strange look came into her eyes. She ordered the coachman to drive to the house of an obscure pamphleteer. whose pen was at the service of any one who paid for it.
 The next morning the Queen receiv- cd by courier a receipt signed by Boeh- nler and BassanEe, acknowledging the return of the necklace and agreeing to renounce the contract in consider ation of the 100000 francs, Marie An- toinette locked the paper up and de- termined to dismiss the affair from her mind.
 That same morning the cardinal vis- tted the jewellers. as he was disturbed about the matter of payment They informed him that they were quite sat- isfied, as they had received a letter from the Queen by courier, in which she engaged herself to pay 500. .oo0 francs in three months and the rest in six months.
 Jeanne knew we'll that she was playing q desperate game. 4 chance word by either the cardinal sor. the Queen at the meeting might expose her play desperate game for the great fortune that lay hidden away in her house: and she was daring enough to calcuIate that both Marie Antoinette and De Hohafi would be jealous to avoid any reference to the matter that had humiliated both equally.
 Her adventurous mind, set herceiy on gaining her position in the world as a yalois. abhorred the idea of flight. She would not face the thought of be- ing known as a thief whom justice could not reach merely because she was too far away. Her quick wit showed her course far more desir- able.
 She would compromise the Queen and the Cardinal so that, when at last they discovered the forgeries and theft they would not dare to speak-nay, would be forced to sustain her in her position and let her enjoy both her wealth and honor in peace.
 De Rohan's boundiess ambition and his faith fin his powers of charming the opposite sex, offered her the means. The clever woman found 1t ludicrous- ly easy to make the clever man be- iieve that the Queen looked on his fine form and handsome face with more than royal favor. Nor was De Rohan much to blame for his credulity, for scandal credited Marie Antoinette with amost as many lovers as there were handsome young men at court.
 That there were many who sighed for the beautiful Austrian was true enough. Not a lady in all Versailles. dazzling though she snight be, could claim to rival her royal mistress. De Coigny, Vaudreul and rnanay others had worn their hearts on their sleeves tured King was forced to send them away from his court. Her latest vic- tins were two young heroes, Philip de Taverney, who had returned with glory from his service fin the American Revolution, and Count Georges de -a4 .nA u4 nous deeds under his uncle, the great Admiral de Suffren. These two young mer had not been at cours many weeks before they fought a duel over quarrel which neither would explain, but which all the wicked world of Pa ris declared to be about the queen;
 It was Philip whom Paris, and De Charney among the rest, credited with having accompanied the Queen to the masked ball Phillip, on the other hand, suspected De Charney of having been the favored lover; and each man was the more fiereely jealous of the other since he considered his own pas- sion hopeless
 De Rohan, of course. knew all these stories. Believing that he had sup planted his rivals, he was easily in- duced by the Countess de Ia Motte to write letters to Marie Antoinette that would cost any man, no matter how DOWeTIuls ms AhScC ASNNDAe sN gave to Jeanne to delivert to the oueeni and Jeann, of cours, kept them.
 With De Rohan thus self-delfvered to her power 1t remained only to en- tangie Marie Antoinette in such scandal that, guilty or innocent. the Queen would be forced to buy her sil- ence. She was too wise to dream of turing the Queen of France Into any compromising situation. but she did not need to essay so difficult labor. OlIva was sufficient for her plans.
 That young woman had fallen thor ouRhly under the spell of Jeanne. and ahe agree readily when the adventures proposed to her that she put on some Ane gowns which she brought to her and pretend that she was the queen at a rendezvous to be given at midnight at Versailles in the royal grounds.
 Then Jeanne informed the Cardinal that his letters had found so much Ia vor that the Queen would grant him a secret meeting So it happened that for three successive nights the Prince Cardinal met her whom he thought to ha the Quuen, uttered his love of his sovereign and swan in heavens of rap ture.
 when the Cardinal convinced that the Queen had gtooped to him. Jeanne or Valois felt that she had won. Even IT the Cardinal and the Queen discovered that they had been duped and now they could not prove it, and they dare not turn against the one who held lh