Meanwhile, the nurse and Marie were making their dinner in the kitchen off the soup which had been specially provided for them �� Marie having previously placed the dirty plates, and the empty soup-tureen from the dining-room, in the scullery, as usual, to be washed at the proper time. While she and her companion were still engaged over their soup, young Duparc and his mother suddenly burst into the kitchen, followed by the other persons who had partaken of dinner. ��We are all poisoned!�� cried Madame Duparc, in the greatest terror. ��Good heavens! I smell burned arsenic in the kitchen!�� These were the plain duties which Monsieur Revel, the Procurator, was officially bound to fulfill. In the case of Marie, he not only neglected to perform any one of them, but actually sanctioned a scheme for entrapping her into prison, by sending a commissary of police to the house, in plain clothes, with an order to place her in s