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Chapter 16 The Buroldy Case

Some twenty years or so before the opening of the present story,

Mulsier Arnold Buroldy, a native of Lyon, arrived in Paris, accompanied by his pretty wife and

their little daughter, a mere babe. Mulsier Buroldy was a junior partner in a firm of wine merchants,

a stout, middle-aged man, fond of the good things of life, devoted to his charming wife,

and all together unremarkable in every way. The firm in which Mulsier Buroldy was a partner

was a small one, and although doing well, it did not yield a large income to the junior partner.

The Buroldies had a small apartment and lived in a very modest fashion to begin with.

But unremarkable, though Mulsier Buroldy might be, his wife was plenifully

gilded with the brush of romance. Young and good-looking and gifted with all with a singular charm of

manner, Madame Buroldy at once created a stir in the quarter, especially when it began to be

whispered that some interesting mystery surrounded her birth. It was rumored that she was the illegitimate

daughter of a Russian grand duke. Others asserted that it was an Austrian archduke and that the union

was legal, though Morgana Tech. But all stories agreed upon one point, that Jean Buroldy was the

center of an interesting mystery. Questioned by the curious Madame Buroldy did not deny these rumors.

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