Change comes

"Now, then, a change comes over the matter. We are told that on

one occasion, while a Madame B—— was at Madame Rogêt's house, M.

Beauvais, who was going out, told her that a gendarme was

expected there, and she, Madame B., must not say anything to the

gendarme until he returned, but let the matter be for him.... In

the present posture of affairs, M. Beauvais appears to have the

whole matter locked up in his head. A single step cannot be taken

without M. Beauvais, for, go which way you will, you run against

him.... For some reason, he determined that nobody shall have any

thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed

the male relatives out of the way, according to their

representations, in a very singular manner. He seems to have been

very much averse to permitting the relatives to see the body."

By the following fact, some color was given to the suspicion thus

thrown upon Beauvais. A visitor at his office, a few days prior