The chevalier replied, simply:

“I shall tell him, madame.”

He bowed to her, saluted the count and the other guests, and departed.

Four days later, the countess de Dreux found upon the table in her chamber a red leather case bearing the cardinal’s arms. She opened it, and found the Queen’s Necklace.

But as all things must, in the life of a man who strives for unity and logic, converge toward the same goal⁠—and as a little advertising never does any harm⁠—on the following day, the Echo de France published these sensational lines: