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Charles expressed some surprise at this declaration, and having previously promised at Dessein's entreaty, that he would in no wise take the matter ill, he was informed that, some months before, a gentleman came to him one morning, saying,
'Mr. Dessein I have been robbed of those eighty louis d'ors which I yesterday received from you in a bag.'
He replied it was impossible; that his money might probably be mislaid, or found by the servants, but that in that house nobody could be

robbed. He would make enquiry, he said, and the money would be restored to him.

The gentleman went out, and at his return Dessein had eighty louis d'ors ready for him in a bag similar to the other, for money being in France often paid in three livre and six livre pieces, the bankers have all bags on purpose.
The excuse made to the gentleman was, that, as the house was very full the evening before, the servant, after he was asleep, seeing the bag lie on the ground, had brought it to one of the clerks, who had put it in the counting house; for it should be known that Dessein is a banker as well as an innkeeper. The gentleman, not in the least suspecting the truth of what he heard, put the money in his pocket, and went away.
The fact, however, which had been so artfully suppressed, was this: Dessein said he saw in a moment that the gentleman had been really robbed, and upon making his enquiries, as to the situation of the lodgers, he found to a certainty by whom. In short, he said, this crime was committed by a young English gentleman, heir to a high title, and a large estate; that it could not be for want of money,

as, no doubt, he might have had what he pleased of his father; but finding himself in an immediate necessity, instead of applying to him, in which case he might have been supplied, he took this sum without considering the consequences.
Mr. Dessein said the resolution he took upon it was to say nothing upon the subject to any person till he should see the young gentleman himself, for that out of gratitude to the English, to whom he owed his all, he would rather lose ten times that sum than make a stir about such a trifle, but that having seen that young gentleman since, and been treated by him in a very en cavalier style, though he was determined not to expose him, except to his
