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Hearing
faint
moans
issuing
from
the
bedroom
,
she
went
in
.
A
terrible
sight
met
her
eyes
.
Madame
Beroldy
lay
on
the
floor
,
bound
hand
and
foot
,
uttering
feeble
moans
,
having
managed
to
free
her
mouth
from
a
gag
.
On
the
bed
was
Monsieur
Beroldy
,
lying
in
a
pool
of
blood
,
with
a
knife
driven
through
his
heart
.
Madame
Beroldy
’
s
story
was
clear
enough
.
Suddenly
awakened
from
sleep
,
she
had
discerned
two
masked
men
bending
over
her
.
Stifling
her
cries
,
they
had
bound
and
gagged
her
.
They
had
then
demanded
of
Monsieur
Beroldy
the
famous
“
secret
.
”
But
the
intrepid
wine
merchant
refused
point
-
blank
to
accede
to
their
request
.
Angered
by
his
refusal
,
one
of
the
men
incontinently
stabbed
him
through
the
heart
.
With
the
dead
man
’
s
keys
,
they
had
opened
the
safe
in
the
corner
,
and
had
carried
away
with
them
a
mass
of
papers
.
Both
men
were
heavily
bearded
,
and
had
worn
masks
,
but
Madame
Beroldy
declared
positively
that
they
were
Russians
.
The
affair
created
an
immense
sensation
.
It
was
referred
to
variously
as
“
the
Nihilist
Atrocity
,
”
“
Revolutionaries
in
Paris
,
”
and
the
“
Russian
Mystery
.
”
Time
went
on
,
and
the
mysterious
bearded
men
were
never
traced
.
And
then
,
just
as
public
interest
was
beginning
to
die
down
,
a
startling
development
occurred
.
Madame
Beroldy
was
arrested
and
charged
with
the
murder
of
her
husband
.
The
trial
,
when
it
came
on
,
aroused
widespread
interest
.
The
youth
and
beauty
of
the
accused
,
and
her
mysterious
history
,
were
sufficient
to
make
of
it
a
cause
célèbre
.
People
ranged
themselves
wildly
for
or
against
the
prisoner
.
But
her
partisans
received
several
severe
checks
to
their
enthusiasm
.
The
romantic
past
of
Madame
Beroldy
,
her
royal
blood
,
and
the
mysterious
intrigues
in
which
she
had
her
being
were
shown
to
be
mere
fantasies
of
the
imagination
.
It
was
proved
beyond
doubt
that
Jeanne
Beroldy
’
s
parents
were
a
highly
respectable
and
prosaic
couple
,
fruit
merchants
,
who
lived
on
the
outskirts
of
Lyons
.
The
Russian
Grand
Duke
,
the
court
intrigues
,
and
the
political
schemes
—
all
the
stories
current
were
traced
back
to
—
the
lady
herself
!
From
her
brain
had
emanated
these
ingenious
myths
,
and
she
was
proved
to
have
raised
a
considerable
sum
of
money
from
various
credulous
persons
by
her
fiction
of
the
“
Crown
jewels
”
—
the
jewels
in
question
being
found
to
be
mere
paste
imitations
.
Remorselessly
the
whole
story
of
her
life
was
laid
bare
.
The
motive
for
the
murder
was
found
in
Mr
.
Hiram
P
.
Trapp
.
Mr
.
Trapp
did
his
best
,
but
relentlessly
and
agilely
cross
-
questioned
he
was
forced
to
admit
that
he
loved
the
lady
,
and
that
,
had
she
been
free
,
he
would
have
asked
her
to
be
his
wife
.
The
fact
that
the
relations
between
them
were
admittedly
platonic
strengthened
the
case
against
the
accused
.
Debarred
from
becoming
his
mistress
by
the
simple
honourable
nature
of
the
man
,
Jeanne
Beroldy
had
conceived
the
monstrous
project
of
ridding
herself
of
her
elderly
undistinguished
husband
,
and
becoming
the
wife
of
the
rich
American
.
Throughout
,
Madame
Beroldy
confronted
her
accusers
with
complete
sang
froid
and
self
possession
.
Her
story
never
varied
.
She
continued
to
declare
strenuously
that
she
was
of
royal
birth
,
and
that
she
had
been
substituted
for
the
daughter
of
the
fruit
seller
at
an
early
age
.
Absurd
and
completely
unsubstantiated
as
these
statements
were
,
a
great
number
of
people
believed
implicitly
in
their
truth
.
But
the
prosecution
was
implacable
.
It
denounced
the
masked
“
Russians
”
as
a
myth
,
and
asserted
that
the
crime
had
been
committed
by
Madame
Beroldy
and
her
lover
,
Georges
Conneau
.
A
warrant
was
issued
for
the
arrest
of
the
latter
,
but
he
had
wisely
disappeared
.
Evidence
showed
that
the
bonds
which
secured
Madame
Beroldy
were
so
loose
that
she
could
easily
have
freed
herself
.
