the guilty person, that he declared it useless
to waste time in making any further search,
especially as the count said ho could answer
for the honesty of all his own servants.

D'Anglade and his wife wore taken
formally into custody; their persons were
searched, and seventeen louis-d'or and a
double pistole, Spanish money, were found in
d'Anglade's purse—a circumstance which
strengthened the suspicion against him, as
part of the money stolen was in pistoles. It
came out also, that d'Anglade, who was in
the habit of supping every night in town,
always took the key of the street-door; there
being no regular porter; but, upon the night
on which the robbery must have been
committed, he supped at home, contrary to his
usual custom. This crowning piece of
circumstantial evidence seemed decisive; seals
were placed on all the doors, and d'Anglade
and his wife were carried off to prison,—the
husband was placed in the châtelet, and the
wife in Fort l'Evêque. They were each thrown
into a dungeon, and the gaolers were strictly
charged to prevent them seeing or
communicating with any one. Their confinement
was made as severe as possible. Madame
d'Anglade, had a dangerous miscarriage, but
it brought no amelioration to the rigour of
her prison.

The trial came on. Witnesses were heard
for the prosecution. Amongst the chief were
the count's servants and the Abbé Gagnard,
his almoner; and two of these witnesses
deposed that they had seen d'Anglade near
the door of the abbé's apartment just before
the arrival of the Count de Montgommeri.
Another witness swore that he knew
d'Anglade to be a gambler, and that he had
heard the Abbé Bouin call him an old
clothes-man; and this tallied with the fact
that he lent money upon pledges.

Another witness deposed to having heard
that d'Anglade had once stolen a piece of
ribbon, and that, before he came to live in
the Rue Royale, a quantity of silver plate
had suddenly disappeared from the house
where he lodged. Many other minute facts
came out, all tending to deepen the suspicion
against the d'Anglades. The most damaging
evidence, however, was gathered from his
own replies to the interrogatories concerning
his birth and source of income. An evident
mystery surrounded him. He prevaricated
in his answers. At last, it was made clear,
that instead of being, as he had boasted, a
gentleman of high birth aud large fortune, his
origin was mean, and his income was not more
than two thousand livres, although he lived
expensively, paid for everything in ready
money, and had money to lend out besides.
This at once established him as a chevalier
d'industrie, and put an end to the sympathies
of honest men. Added to all these facts and
suspicions, d'Anglade and his wife contradicted
each other, and there were discrepancies
between their statements. The case looked
very black against them; but, as the justice
of those days would on no account condemn
a prisoner without giving him every chance;
of confessing his doom to be well merited,
d'Anglade was put to the. torture. The
evidence was after all only circumstantial,
and it would be a satisfaction if he could be made
to confess. He was put first to the torture
ordinary; and, as that brought nothing, they
proceeded to the torture extraordinary, which
brought nothing either. As d'Anglade refused
to confess his guilt, there was nothing to
be done but to condemn him without a
confession (for of course justice never felt a
moment's hesitation as to his guilt), and, on
the sixteenth of February, sixteen hundred
and eighty-eight, he was condemned to the
galleys for nine years: his wife was banished
from Paris for a like period. Also, he was
sentenced to pay a fine to the king, to make
restitution of the stolen goods, and to pay
three thousand livres to the count by way of
compensation, which required more than he
had in the world. The five months he had
spent in prison, during which he had lived on
bread and water, with nothing but damp and
rotten straw for a bed, had entirely shattered
his constitution. Nevertheless, on being taken
from the torture-chamber he was thrown into
the darkest and frightfulest dungeon of the
Montgommeri tower, from which lie was only
removed to be taken—all broken to pieces—
to the Château de la Joncelle, where he was
attached to a gang of forçats. He seemed
to be at the point of death; he declared that
he was innocent of all knowledge of the
robbery, received the last sacraments with
devotion, pardoned his enemies, and
expected death with a composure that might
arise either from a sense of innocence or the
prospect of a release from intense suffering.
He recovered, however, sufficiently to depart
for the galleys with the rest; but he was
obliged to be conveyed in a cart, and two
men were employed to lift him down every
evening and lay him upon his bed of straw,
and to lift him again into the cart the next
morning. The Count de Montgommeri, who
was terribly afraid that the sufferings of
d'Anglade might soften the heart of justice,
or that death might deprive him of his
revenge, was earnest in his solicitations for
the immediate departure of d'Anglade to the
galleys, and stationed himself upon the road
by which he must pass in order to feast his
eyes upon the spectacle of d'Anglade's
misery.

Upon the fourth of March, sixteen hundred
and eighty-nine, d'Anglade died in the hospital
at Marseilles, four months after his arrival
at the galleys.

No sooner was d'Anglade dead, than
anonymous letters began to circulate in all
directions, in which the writer declared that
his conscience would give him no peace
until he declared that M. d'Anglade was
entirely innocent of the robbery committed