" He seized Ursula and kissed her forehead. "Oh! my child, you
will be rich and happy, and all through me!"
"What is it?" exclaimed the abbe.
"Oh, monsieur," cried La Bougival, catching Bongrand's blue overcoat,
"let me kiss you for what you've just said."
"Explain, explain! don't give us false hopes," said the abbe.
"If I bring trouble on others by becoming rich," said Ursula,
forseeing a criminal trial, "I--"
"Remember," said the justice, interrupting her, "the happiness you
will give to Savinien."
"Are you mad?" said the abbe.
"No, my dear friend," said Bongrand. "Listen; the certificates in the
Funds are issued in series,--as many series as there are letters in
the alphabet; and each number bears the letter of its series. But the
certificates which are made out 'to bearer' cannot have a letter; they
are not in any person's name. What you see there shows that the day
the doctor placed his money in the Funds, he noted down, first, the
number of his own certificate for fifteen thousand francs interest
which bears his initial M; next, the numbers of three inscriptions to
bearer; these are without a letter; and thirdly, the certificate of
Ursula's share in the Funds, the number of which is 23,534, and which
follows, as you see, that of the fifteen-thousand-franc certificate
with lettering.
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