That Talbot had been kicked out of a gambling-house in the Rue Richelieu was absolutely proved.

An acquaintance who had been with him in Dorsetshire on his first arrival there had seen this done; and bore testimony of the fact that the man so treated was the man who had taken the hunting-lodge in England.

This same acquaintance had been one of the party adverse to Talbot in the row which had followed, and he could not, therefore, be got to say that he had seen him dead.

But other evidence had gone to show that the man who had been so extruded was the man who had perished; and the French lawyer whom Mr.Wainwright had employed, at last assured the poor broken-hearted clergyman that he might look upon it as proved.

"Had he not been dead," said the lawyer, "the inquiry which has been made would have traced him out alive." And thus his daughter was instructed to put on her widow's cap, and her mother again called her Mrs.Talbot.
Indeed, at that time they hardly knew what to call her, or how to act in the wisest and most befitting manner.