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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Everything this lady possessed was sold?" inquired Lecoq. "Everything." "And what is the name of this brother of hers?" "Watchau, also. The baroness had probably married one of her relatives. Until last year her brother occupied a very prominent diplomatic position. I think he now resides at Berlin."
"If such valuable jewels are not mentioned in the catalogue of the sale, the Baroness de Watchau could not have possessed them at the time of her death. And if she no longer possessed them she must have given them away or sold them. And who could she have sold them to? To one of her lady friends, very probably.
Blanche had not purchased the diamond ear-rings she wore at the Poivriere at any shop, but from one of her friends, the Baroness de Watchau. And lastly, if no one at Paris had missed the Duc de Sairmeuse, it was because thanks to an understanding between the duchess, Otto, and Camille no other inmate of the Hotel de Sairmeuse suspected his absence.
"You tried very hard, I don't deny it; but as for making every effort that's quite another thing. For instance, when you heard that the Baroness de Watchau was dead, and that all her property had been sold, what did you do?" "You know; I went immediately to the person who had charge of the sale." "Very well! and afterwards?"
He hurried to the Faubourg Saint Honore, to the house formerly occupied by the Baroness de Watchau, and there found a good-natured concierge, who at once informed him that after the Baroness's death her furniture and personal effects had been taken to the great auction mart in the Rue Drouot; the sale being conducted by M. Petit, the eminent auctioneer.
In my time, after each gallop, we girls used to swallow a tumbler of sweetened wine, and sit down between two open doors. And we did very well, as you see." "But, madame," insisted Lecoq, "the Baroness de Watchau must have left some one behind her a husband, or children " "No one but a brother, who holds a court position at Vienna: and who could not leave even to attend the funeral.
There is not the least need for you to turn as red as a poppy, young man. I sold these diamonds to a great Austrian lady the Baroness de Watchau." "And where does this lady reside?" "At the Pere la Chaise, probably, since she died about a year ago. Ah! these women of the present day an extra waltz, or the merest draft, and it's all over with them!
Without losing a minute, Lecoq hastened to this individual's office. M. Petit remembered the Watchau sale very well; it had made quite a sensation at the time, and on searching among his papers he soon found a long catalogue of the various articles sold.
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