— 12 — THE GRIMOIRESM. de La Reynie and his two confidential clerks soon reduced to bare essentials Desgrez’s already concise report of his adventures at the villa of M. de Saint-Maurice at Passy.
It was now beyond dispute that the Plenipotentiary from Savoy entertained with almost insolent recklessness a very strange company at his pleasure house. Of these Desgrez had been able to identify the Maréchal de Luxembourg, the Italian apothecary Malipiero, Doctor Rabel and Father Davout. He had also learned that a certain swarthy woman, whose face was disfigured by a scarcely healed skin disease, was named La Voisin, and he surmised that her younger companion was her daughter. The other people present at the villa Desgrez could not identify: the most remarkable of them had been the blonde woma
