The two men first went through the place with other visitors, studied a printed plan of the building, and had no difficulty in noting the best means of access to the Jewel room. They took th train Chantilly one afternoon and entered the grounds after dark. Kauffer, a man of exceptional strength, took a long ladder from a builder's! yard, carried it to the foot of the wall of the chateau and placed it in position. As it proved to be too short, they helped themselves to wr ladder and tied the two to-ether. Souter, being the lighter'
ian, went up, broke a window with a hammer, hastily forced a couple of show-cates, filled his pockets, and decamped. He did not actually select anything except the big diamond, which had naturally _attracted his attention on his first visit in the daytime; the rest of his} plunder was taken haphazard, Souter knew nothing about the! hours at which the caretakers were supposed to make their nightly rounds He and 'Kauffer, the leading spirit in the affair, took their chance, and they encountered no! obstacle. They kept the pink diamond, realizing that it was unsaleable, but they broke up most the other jewellery, malting down' the gold and selling' the loose stones to two dealers, who ore also in custody. The thieves' net profit was about Fr. 20,000, They sent the money (o a young woman in Alzace and it has boon recovered. Their selection-of the.apple as the hiding-place for the diamond was ingenious, but Iuel: was against them, Bishop's Simile The service held in Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday an me pressive climax to the series of] eeemonies in honour of the five Chinere bishops. The great organ pealed and the full choir sang the sacordos' while Cardinal (Archbishop of Paris) and bishops walke! slong the whole Jength of the nave, followed by the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in full uniform, 'Their hands joined and their eyes lowered, the five bishops appeared to be very much impressed as they' made their way to the choir, where the Papal Nuncio was waiting to greet them, Later on, the la congregation was agreeably surprised to hear an address delivered in excellent French by one of the Chinese ishovs, Mgr. Tsu, who comes from Shanghai.
He accent tuated his polished phrases by gestures with his hand, on which he wore the pastoral ring, set, not with the customary amethyst' but with a pinkish Chinese stone. Another oration was delivered by Mgr. Sun, who is a native of Peking und belongs to the Lazarists. Although he has a good knowledge of French, he preferred to speak in Chinese for the special benefit of his numerous ets who were present. He jur Chinese Republic is)
ive of which you are the! working bees. France, the country' in which you is a delightful garden, wherein all the arts and Chinese ised by some prac cal joker the other afternoon. Mmes, Madele: ne Carlier, Regina Camier, and Ida Rubinstein, iM, Van Dongen, Silvain, Galipaus, Rezenberg, Fursy, "Nozitre, Maurice Deke'ra and others each received a telephone message to the effect that BIN. Herriot, the Minister of Public Instruction, desired -to. sce him: or] her personally ar six o'clock.
Feeling, no doubt, rather flattered, and anticipating that their merits were about to be officially recognized, obeyed the summons, only.to find that they had been' hoaxed: Some of them were naturally annoyed, while others endeavoured to see the humour of the situation, if there anything humorous in' causing one's fellow-citizens to waste their
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