I will tell you more when I am able to go to you.
Your devoted friend, Chaperon.
When Savinien, who was almost maddened by these proceedings, carried this letter to the abbe, the poor priest read it and re-read it; so amazed and horror-stricken was he to see the perfection with which his own handwriting and signature were imitated.

The dangerous condition into which this last atrocity threw poor Ursula sent Savinien once more to the procureur du roi with the forged letter.
"A murder is being committed by means that the law cannot touch," he said, "upon an orphan whom the Code places in your care as legal guardian.

What is to be done ?" "If you can find any means of repression," said the official, "I will adopt them; but I know of none.

That infamous wretch gives the best advice.

Mademoiselle Mirouet must be sent to the sisters of the Adoration of the Sacred Heart.