“By whom, then?”
“By one of my friends, the late king’s butler, who was under great obligations to me.”
“Oh! and so he gave it to you.”
“Certainly, your grace,” said the maître-d’hôtel with pride.
“And what did you do with it?”
“I placed it carefully in my master’s cellar.”
“Your master! And who was your master at that time?”
“His eminence the Cardinal de Rohan.”
“Ah, mon Dieu! at Strasbourg?”
“At Saverne.”