And there are a hundred details known to the villagers here which go to prove what we have always suspected to be the case, namely, that Louis XVII.

was rescued from the Temple by the daring and ingenuity of a devoted few who so jealously guarded their secret that they frustrated their own object; for they one and all must have perished on the guillotine, or at the hands of some other assassin, without divulging their knowledge, and in the confusion and horror of those days the little Dauphin was lost to sight.
"There is a trinket--a locket--containing a miniature, which I am assured is a portrait of Marie Antoinette.

This locket is in the possession of Dormer Colville, who suggests that we should refrain from using violence to open it until this can be done in France in the presence of suitable witnesses.

A fall or some mishap has so crushed the locket that it can only be opened by a jeweller provided with suitable instruments.

It has remained closed for nearly a quarter of a century, but a reliable witness in whose possession it has been since he, who was undoubtedly Louis XVII., died in his arms, remembers the portrait, and has no doubt of its authenticity.