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30ARIADNE.Would the wealth all fall to the State,lapse tothe Church ?That was the excitement of the quarter as,later on next day, when the lean frightful bodyof him had been shovelled into the earth oftheir burial place going towards Aventine, themen of law spent long hours unearthing all theevidences of his riches,and though sunset wasnear at hand,yet were far off the close of theirlabours, searching and sealingfrom morn to eve.Isaid nothing to any one, but went home ;got those papers which she had first put inmyhands in those early days when she had livedunder the shadow of my Hermes; and took themto those chambers in the Vatican where dweltmy mighty friend, who had risen to be a cardinal,andvery mighty and powerful, and was a— good andgenerousmanwithal; forinthose daysone could do nothing without a voice from theVatican, and with it could do everything inRome.He was a goodman, and a greatman, and hadneverforgotten that but for my poor service tohimin his youth,hein all likelihood would never