provided with means through Madelon's dowry, and endowed with uncommon
skill at his trade, as well as with every virtue of a good citizen, he
led there a happy life, free from care. He realised the hopes which had
deceived his father and had brought him at last to his grave.

A year after Brusson's departure there appeared a public proclamation,
signed by Harloy de Chauvalon, Archbishop of Paris, and by the
parliamentary advocate, Pierre Arnaud d'Andilly, which ran to the
effect that a penitent sinner had, under the seal of confession, handed
over to the Church a large and valuable store of jewels and gold
ornaments which he had stolen. Everybody who up to the end of the year
1680 had lost ornaments by theft, particularly by a murderous attack in
the public street, was to apply to D'Andilly, and then, if his
description of the ornament which had been stolen from him tallied
exactly with any of the pieces awaiting identification, and if further
there existed no doubt as to the legitimacy of his claim, he should
receive his property again. Many of those whose names stood on
Cardillac's list as having been, not murdered, but merely stunned by a
blow, gradually came one after the other to the parliamentary advocate,
and received, to their no little amazement, their stolen property back
again. The rest fell to the coffers of the Church of St. Eustace.

FOOTNOTES TO "MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERI":

[Footnote 1: Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701), a native of Normandy,
went to Paris and became connected with the Hotel Rambouillet.
Afterwards, on its being broken up by the troubles of the Fronde, she
formed a literary circle of her own, their "Saturday gatherings"
becoming celebrated. Mademoiselle de Scudery wrote some vapid and
tedious novels, amongst which were the _Clelie_ (1656), an historical
romance, to be mentioned presently in the text.]

[Footnote 2: The well-known wife of Scarron, then the successor of
Madame de Montespan in the favour of Louis XIV., and afterwards his
wife.]

[Footnote 3: A kind of mounted gensdarmes or police.]

[Footnote 4: Supposed to have been arsenic.]

[Footnote 5: These facts are all for the most part historically true.]

[Footnote 6: Marie M. d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, a notorious
poisoner, executed July 16, 1676. Madame de Sevigne's _Lettres_ contain
interesting information on the events of this period. A special history
of De Brinvillier's trial was also published in the same y