They say he has a mistress, a very wealthy lady; that he was examined by the Director-General of Police during the night on some not over-pleasant matters, and that after the interview he drove away from the ministry with his mistress, who was waiting for him in a carriage.
"I would not believe this," the tobacconist concluded, "but then--well, now let him tell Ms story!" One of the six, a man who kept a tavern at Santa Sabina, immediately began to relate that his wife had heard a carriage stop near the tavern, in the middle of the night; she had gone to the window, and had seen a private carriage, with coachman and footman in tall hats.

The footman, standing at the carriage door, was helping some one to alight.

The person who got out had then walked past the window, going towards Sant' Anselmo, and she had recognised in him the Saint of Jenne.

The tavern-keeper added that he had not believed she had really recognised him, for there was no moon, and it had rained until after eleven o'clock, so the night must have been quite dark; therefore he had not spoken.

But when he had heard this story at the police-station, he had been convinced.