these precautions have been taken in order that she may learn who
are the persons who have joined in the attack upon her distinguished
and much-loved person. Who, then, is the abettor of Madame Valois?
Who has received the diamonds from the cardinal, through the
instrumentality of Madame Valois? I assert, it is the queen who has
done it. She received the jewels, and now she denies the whole
story. And now this woman Lamotte-Valois must draw the hot chestnuts
out from the ashes. You know this; so it always is! Kings may go
unpunished, they always have a bete de souffrance, which has to bear
their burdens. But now that a cardinal, the grand almoner of France,
is compelled to become the bete de souffrance for this Austrian
woman, must show you, my friends, that her arrogance has reached its
highest point. She has trodden modesty and morals under foot, and
now she will tread the Church under foot also."

"Be still!" was the cry on all sides. "The carbineers and gendarmes
are coming. Be still, Marat, be still! You must not be arrested. We
do not want all our friends to be taken to the Bastile."

And really just at that instant, at the entrance of the street that
led to the square on the side of the Tuileries, appeared a division
of carbineers, advancing at great speed.

Marat jumped with the speed of a cat down from the huge form of the
brewer. The crowd opened and made way for him, and before the
carbineers had approached, Marat had disappeared.

With this day began the investigations respecting the necklace which
Messrs. Bohmer and Bassenge had wanted to sell the queen through the
agency of Cardinal Bohan. The latter was still a prisoner in the