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THE FACTS OF A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
Michu sold his farm at once to Beauvisage, a farmer at Bellache, but he was not to receive the money for twenty days.

A month after the Marquis de Chargeboeuf's visit, Laurence, who had told her cousins of their buried fortune, proposed to them to take the day of the Mi-careme to disinter it.

The unusual quantity of snow which fell that winter had hitherto prevented Michu from obtaining the treasure, and it now gave him pleasure to undertake the operation with his masters.

He was determined to leave the neighborhood as soon as it was over, for he feared himself.
"Malin has suddenly arrived at Gondreville, and no one knows why," he said to his mistress.