She left Paris merely to repair to Bar-sur-
Aube and live in her magnificent palace. She tarried there so long
as to allow the police detectives to discover in the rich and
elegant lady the intriguer Lamotte-Valois, and to effect the
imprisonment of her husband and his friend, the so-called Count
Cagliostro. Her other abetters had put themselves out of sight, and
were not to be discovered. However, their arrest was not specially
necessary, for the facts were already sufficiently strong and clear.
Some of the diamonds which Lamotte had sold in London were brought
back to Paris, and had been recognized by Bohmer and Bassenge as
belonging to the necklace which they had sold to the queen. The
goldsmith had been discovered to whom the countess had sold the
golden setting of the necklace, and Bohmer and Bassenge had
recognized in the fragments which remained their own work. It is
unquestionable that the Countess Lamotte-Valois, through her
intrigues and cunning, had been able to gain possession of the
necklace, and that she had appropriated it to her own use. The
countess is therefore guilty of theft and deception. She is,
moreover, guilty of forgery, for she has imitated the handwriting of
the queen, and subscribed it with the royal name. But the hand is
neither that of the queen, nor does the queen ever subscribe herself
'Marie Antoinette of France.
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