It was then that your father entrusted him with the papers and medal." "But of what use will this medal be to us, Dagobert ?" "And what is the meaning of these words engraved upon it ?" added Rose, as she drew it from her bosom.
"Why it means, my children, that on the 13th of February, 1832, we must be at No.

3, Rue Saint Francois, Paris." "But what are we to do there ?" "Your poor mother was seized so quickly with her last illness, that she was unable to tell me.

All I know is, that this medal came to her from her parents, and that it had been a relic preserved in her family for more than a century." "And how did our father get it ?" "Among the articles which had been hastily thrown into the coach, when he was removed by force from Warsaw, was a dressing-case of your mother's, in which was contained this medal.

Since that time the general had been unable to send it back, having no means of communicating with us, and not even knowing where we were." "This medal is, then, of great importance to us ?" "Unquestionably; for never, during fifteen years, had I seen your mother so happy, as on the day the traveller brought it back to her.

'Now,' said she to me, in the presence of the stranger, and with tears of joy in her eyes, 'now may my children's future be brilliant as their life has hitherto been miserable.