His boots were neat; his hair, carefully combed, was perfumed--in short he was metamorphosed.
"The fact is you are another man," said Bongrand.
"Morally as well as physically.

Virtue comes with practice--a practice; besides, money is the source of cleanliness--" "Morally as well as physically," returned Bongrand, settling his spectacles.
"Ha! monsieur, is a man worth a hundred thousand francs a year ever a democrat?
Consider me in future as an honest man who knows what refinement is, and who intends to love his wife," said Goupil; "and what's more, I shall prevent my clients from ever doing dirty actions." "Well, make haste," said Bongrand.

"Let me have that copy in an hour, and notary Goupil will have undone some of the evil deeds of Goupil the clerk." After asking the Nemours doctor to lend him his horse and cabriolet, he went back to Ursula's house for the two important volumes and for her own certificate of Funds; then, armed with the extract from the inventory, he drove to Fontainebleau and had an interview with the procureur du roi.

Bongrand easily convinced that official of the theft of the three certificates by one or other of the heirs,--presumably by Minoret.
"His conduct is explained," said the procureur.
As a measure of precaution the magistrate at once notified the Treasury to withhold transfer of the said certificates, and told Bongrand to go to Paris and ascertain if the shares had ever been sold.

He then wrote a polite note to Madame Minoret requesting her presence.
Zelie, very uneasy about her son's duel, dressed herself at once, had the horses put to her carriage and hurried to Fontainebleau.