roads met.  Two men were waiting there, who took the food and went off in haste.  Allain went to bed about two in the morning; about midday on Saturday as he was sitting down to table a carriage stopped at the inn door; Lefebre and Mme. Acquet got out.  They brought seven guns which were carried up to the loft.  They talked; Mme. Acquet took some lemons from a little basket, and cut them into a bowl filled with white wine and brandy, and she and Lefebre drank while consulting together.  The heat was intolerable and all three were overcome.  Mme. Acquet had to be helped to her carriage and Lefebre undertook to conduct her to Falaise.  Allain, left alone at Aubigny, ordered supper “for six or seven persons.”  He was attending to its preparation when a horseman appeared and asked to speak with him.  It was Dusaussay who brought news.  He had come straight from Argentan where he had seen the coach, laden with chests of silver, enter the yard of the inn of Point-de-France; he described the waggon, the harness and the driver, then remounted and rode rapidly away.  Just then the entire band reappeared, led by Flierle.  Arms were distributed, and the men stood round the table eating hastily.  They filled their wallets with bread and cold meat and left at night.  Allain and Flierle accompanied them and returned to the inn after two hours’ absence.  They did not sleep; they were heard pacing heavily up and down the loft until daylight.  On Sunday, June 7, Allain paid the reckoning, bought a short axe and an old gun from the innkeeper, making eight guns in all at the disposal of the band.  At seven in the morning he left with Flierle, and three leagues from there, arrived at the wood of Quesnay where his men had passed the night.

The waggon destined for the transportation of the funds had been loaded on the 5th at Alencon, in the yard of the house of M. Decres, receiver-general of the Orne, with five heavy chests containing 33,489 francs, 92 centimes.  On the 6th, the carrier, Jean Gousset, employed by the manager of stage coaches at Alencon, had harnessed three horses to it, and escorted by two gendarmes had taken the road to Argentan, where he arrived at five in the evening.  He stopped at Point-de-France, where he had to take a sixth chest containing 33,000 francs, which was delivered in the evening by the agents of M. Larroc, receiver of finances.  The carriage, carefully covered, remained in the inn yard during the night.  Gousset, who had been drinking, went to and fro “talking to every one of his charge”; he even called a traveller, M. Lapeyriere, and winking at the chest that was being hoisted on the waggon, said:  “If we each had ten times as much our fortunes would be made.”  He harnessed up at four o’clock on Sunday, the 7th.  He had been given a fourth horse, and three gendarmes accompanied him.  They made the five leagues between Argentan and Falaise rather slowly, arriving about half past ten.  Gousset stopped with Bertaine at the “Cheval Noir,” where