"Objection of Lachaussee, who asserts that for seven years he was in the
service of the deceased; that he had given into his charge, two years
earlier, 100 pistoles and 200 white crowns, which should be found in a
cloth bag under the closet window, and in the same a paper stating that
the said sum belonged to him, together with the transfer of 300 livres
owed to him by the late M. d'Aubray, councillor; the said transfer made
by him at Laserre, together with three receipts from his master of
apprenticeship, 100 livres each: these moneys and papers he claims."

To Lachaussee the reply was given that he must wait till the day when the
seals were broken, and then if all was as he said, his property would be
returned.

But Lachaussee was not the only person who was agitated about the death
of Sainte-Croix. The, marquise, who was familiar with all the secrets of
this fatal closet, had hurried to the commissary as 2496 soon as she
heard of the event, and although it was ten o'clock at night had demanded
to speak with him. But he had replied by his head clerk, Pierre Frater,
that he was in bed; the marquise insisted, begging them to rouse him up,
for she wanted a box that she could not allow to have opened. The clerk
then went up to the Sieur Picard's bedroom, but came back saying that
what the marquise demanded was for the time being an impossibility, for
the commissary was asleep. She saw that it was idle to insist, and went
away, saying that she should send a man the next morning to fetch the
box. In the morning the man came, offering fifty Louis to the commissary
on behalf of the marquise, if he would give her the box. But he replied
that the box was in the sealed room, that it would have to be opened, and
that if the objects claimed by the marquise were really hers, they would
be safely handed over to her. This reply struck the marquise like a