Monsieur de Portenduere is only waiting for my majority to marry me." "Then the old saw that 'Money does all' is a lie," said Minoret, looking at the justice of peace, whose observing eyes annoyed him so much.
He rose and left the house, but, once outside, he found the air as oppressive as in the little salon.
"There must be an end put to this," he said to himself as he re-entered his own home.
When Ursula came down, bring her certificates and those of La Bougival, she found Monsieur Bongrand walking up and down the salon with great strides.
"Have you no idea what the conduct of that huge idiot means ?" he said.
"None that I can tell," she replied.
Bongrand looked at her with inquiring surprise.
"Then we have the same idea," he said.

"Here, keep the number of your certificates, in case I lose them; you should always take that precaution." Bongrand himself wrote the number of the two certificates, hers and that of La Bougival, and gave them to her.
"Adieu, my child, I shall be gone two days, but you will see me on the third." That night the apparition appeared to Ursula in a singular manner.

She thought her bed was in the cemetery of Nemours, and that her uncle's grave was at the foot of it.

The white stone, on which she read the inscription, opened, like the cover of an oblong album.

She uttered a piercing cry, but the doctor's spectre slowly rose.