CHAPTER XVIII.
THE COLONEL TRIES TO RELIEVE HIMSELF OF A MILLION WHICH INCUMBERS HIM.
Fougas had left Paris for Berlin the day after his audience.

He took three days to make the trip, because he stopped some time at Nancy.

The Marshal had given him a letter of introduction to the Prefect of Meurthe, who received him very politely, and promised to aid him in his investigations.

Unfortunately, the house where he had loved Clementine Pichon was no longer standing.

The authorities had demolished it in 1827, in cutting a street through.