ton was pointed at by one party, while he retorted by naming Roland, minister as he was, as one who knew too much about it.
It
seems probable however that'none except the thieves themselves were
concerned in this astonishing robbery and that they were actuated by
greed alone. The patriots only made use of it for party purposes to
obtain their own objects, just as they tried to utilize in the same
way any uncommon natural phenomenon, such as comets, earthquakes or
hail stones.
A
few days later an anonymous letter was received by the officials at the
Commune stating that if they searched in a spot most carefully
described in the Allée des Veuves of the Champs Elysées, they would
find something to their advantage. They accordingly hunted at the place
indicated and found the Regent and a valuable agate vase. All the rest
of the booty, however, the thieves made off with after having thus
eased their consciences of the weight of the great diamond.
