Asia Minor, leaving full powers with the undersigned to sell his
whole property, both landed and personal.

DUMAY, assignee of the Bank accounts,
LATOURNELLE, notary, assignee of the city and villa property,
GOBENHEIM, assignee of the commercial property."

Latournelle owed his prosperity to the kindness of Monsieur Mignon,
who lent him one hundred thousand francs in 1817 to buy the finest law
practice in Havre. The poor man, who had no pecuniary means, was
nearly forty years of age and saw no prospect of being other than
head-clerk for the rest of his days. He was the only man in Havre
whose devotion could be compared with Dumay's. As for Gobenheim, he
profited by the liquidation to get a part of Monsieur Mignon's
business, which lifted his own little bank into prominence.

While unanimous regrets for the disaster were expressed in
counting-rooms, on the wharves, and in private houses, where praises
of a man so irreproachable, honorable, and beneficent filled every
mouth, Latournelle and Dumay, silent and active as ants, sold land,
turned property into money, paid the debts, and settled up everything.
Vilquin showed a good deal of generosity in purchasing the villa, the
town-house, and a farm; and Latournelle made the most of his
liberality by getting a good price out of him. Society wished to show
civilities to Madame and Mademoiselle Mignon; but they had already
obeyed the father's last wishes and taken refuge in the Chalet, where
they went on the very morning of his departure, the exact hour of
which had been concealed from them. Not to be shaken in his resolution
by his grief at parting, the brave man said farewell to his wife and
daughter while they slept. Three hundred visiting cards were left at