This goes far to prove that those numbers are those of
five certificates of investments made on the same day and noted down
by the doctor in case of loss. I advised him to take certificates to
bearer for Ursula's fortune, and he must have made his own investment
and that of Ursula's little property the same day. I'll go to Dionis's
office and look at the inventory. If the number of the certificate for
his own investment is 23,533, letter M, we may be sure that he
invested, through the same broker on the same day, first his own
property on a single certificate; secondly his savings in three
certificates to bearer (numbered, but without the series letter);
thirdly, Ursula's own property; the transfer books will show, of
course, undeniable proofs of this. Ha! Minoret, you deceiver, I have
you-- Motus, my children!"
Whereupon he left them abruptly to reflect with admiration on the ways
by which Providence had brought the innocent to victory.
"The finger of God is in all this," cried the abbe.
"Will they punish him?" asked Ursula.
"Ah, mademoiselle," cried La Bougival. "I'd give the rope to hang
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