— 7 — THE ARREST
OF THE WIDOW BOSSELeaving Solange a little lonely, a little afraid for all her brave front, in the humble apartment that she kept so trim, Charles Desgrez went to the Chief of Police’s office in the Bastille to report the result of his wife’s visit to the prisoner.
M. de La Reynie agreed that what Madame de Poulaillon had said in her misery was not of much importance; he had, on his part, some news of the affaire Bosse, as he termed it on the headings of the various dossiers to do with the case.
“The mysterious Widow herself has been arrested close to the Spanish frontier. She has been passing under an assumed name, that of the wife of a certain Delmas. The couple have been arrested because they were endeavouring to pass false money.”
“Counterfeiters now!” exclaimed De
