The police chief had hardly recovered from his astonishment at this extraordinary statement when he was visited by a wealthy local manufacturer, who said to him: "I had been badly hit by the business slump and went to see the fortune-teller.
"After consulting a pack of cards, she said that I had a tremendous future. She gave me the address of a woman astrologer in the Rue de I'Hotel-de-Ville, whom she described as the cleverest diviner in the city.
I went to see this woman, Mme. Blanchet (the, same name given by the woman complainant who had called previously).
"Mme. Blanchet gave me an exact account of my private affairs, and I was astonished by her science. She said to me: 'I can get you out of all your troubles, but I must employ a medium, whose intervention may be rather costly,'as he will risk his life in his trances.
"I called upon her several times, paying from £1 to £5 on each visit. Finally she told me that not far from. my estate was hidden a treasure of about 10,000,000 gold coins of square form, adding that to determine the exact spot where the treasure was buried the medium would have to have a considerable sum of gold.
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