I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 474 The Yellow Mud in Paulie's Crotch

"Hello, does Ms. Maria Michela Quirino live here?" the American lawyer first said in English and then repeated in French.

"Oh, it's me." Mrs. Pauli nodded, "Now it's Maria Michela Pauli, I'm married. May I ask who you are?"

The man handed over his business card: "My name is James Denton. I'm your cousin's lawyer."

"Cousin?"

The lawyer nodded. "Yes, it was Signora Giovanna Massimo. Do you remember her?"

Mrs. Paulie shook her head. "I'm sorry, I really don't remember. Oh, please come in and sit down first."

Lawyer Denton entered the room and said politely, "First, I need to confirm that you are from the Quirino family in Padano, Ajaccio?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Then you should be the heir of Madam Massimo's estate." The lawyer took out a stack of documents from his bag. "She is the cousin of the second son of your grandmother's sister..."

The lawyer recited a long list of relatives: "After her death, you are her only relative. Her estate in excess of $1 will be inherited by you."

When Mrs. Paulie heard this number, her mind suddenly became sunny, with birds singing and flowers blooming. The voice and smile of her cousin Giovanna seemed to emerge.

1 US dollars, that's 5 livres! It's enough for her to buy a large manor in Corsica!
She nodded immediately, and then thought of something, with a sad look on her face: "My cousin, when did she die? Oh, God, she was such a good person, how could she..."

"Mrs. Massimo passed away three months ago due to illness," said Lawyer Denton. "She said that she learned that you were in London when she corresponded with you many years ago. Fortunately, you did not move."

Mrs. Paulie tried hard to recall the correspondence with her relatives in the United States. After Corsica was occupied by France, many of her relatives went to the United States to make a living.

And that $1 quickly helped her build a complete set of memories.

"Oh, yes, I think I wrote to my aunt."

"Then please go to the Amsterdam Bank as soon as possible to receive the inheritance. Of course, you can also go to Philadelphia, where I would be more happy to serve you."

Paulie, who was directing the servants to clean up the fire on the second floor, heard the noise and went downstairs to the living room. After his wife told him about the inheritance, she frowned and said, "We are going to Amsterdam? Isn't London okay?"

After all, what he is doing is to divide France, and there are people everywhere who want to kill him, so he must remain vigilant at all times.

"I'm sorry, sir. Mrs. Massimo's property is all in the United States. As you know, there is no banking relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom at the moment. The nearest exchange bank is in the Netherlands."

After verifying Mrs. Pauley's identity, Lawyer Denton handed her the will and other documents, agreed on a time to handle the inheritance, and then left.

Paulie looked at the documents suspiciously and asked his wife, "Do you have any impression of this aunt?"

"Yes, dear, I remember her taking me to town when I was a little girl."

In fact, there is no such person as Signora Massimo.

Fouché sent someone to find out that Madame Paulie had relatives in the United States, and then he fabricated this character.

No one would doubt the inheritance of real gold and silver. Mrs. Paulie quickly attributed her other vague memories to her "cousin" through self-suggestion and firmly believed that she had this relative.

"So you're going to Holland?" Paulie asked, looking at the documents. "Maybe this is a scam." The woman nodded. "I'll go with Mr. Pietro, and it'll be fine. At most, it'll be a trip to Holland. I've wanted to go there for a long time."

She knew that Paulie would never leave England—the French might kill him if he left. But she had never been involved in politics, so she would definitely not be in any danger.

After much deliberation, Paulie finally agreed. After all, $1 is not a small sum of money.

Less than two weeks after his wife went to the Netherlands accompanied by her housekeeper, Paulie received a letter from her.

The letter was full of excitement, telling him that the inheritance was real, that she had received a draft of $1 from the United States, and that it had been cashed. Moreover, her aunt's inheritance was much more than just cash, there were also a lot of real estate and land, but the specific value was unknown, and perhaps she would have to go to the United States in the future.

Paulie was also very happy. After he joined the Restoration Movement, all his income came from the support of others, and his life was not very rich. Now with his wife's inheritance, he can finally live a good life.

Shortly after Mrs. Paulie received her "cousin's" inheritance, a high-level meeting of the organization was held again in the secret base of the Restoration Organization in Ajaccio, Corsica.

The group quickly finalized the details of an uprising in Carges a few months later and submitted the plan to the leader Paulie.

During the lunch break, Congressman Girolamo casually mentioned his wife's chance encounter with Mrs. Paulie in Amsterdam.

"What is Mrs. Paoli doing in Holland?" Giuseppe asked casually while drinking coffee.

"It seems that she is going to inherit the inheritance," said Girolamo. "She mentioned to my wife that she has a distant relative in the United States who left her a large sum of money."

Seeing that no one cared, he continued, "It may be tens of thousands of dollars, and real estate and so on. It's really a windfall."

Of course, Mrs. Paulie had never met his wife, let alone said anything. But the director of the intelligence agency personally gave him instructions, so he had to say so. As for whether it was true or not, no one could go to London to ask Mrs. Paulie whether she had told Mrs. Girolamo about the inheritance.

Yes, Girolamo was turned against the French government a long time ago. But because he did not hold a high position in the organization, he was not very useful except for providing some peripheral intelligence.

He deliberately emphasized "a large sum of money" and "windfall", which finally made Bartolio frown: "This is a bit too coincidental. The money donated by Mr. Chalmers was just burned, and Mrs. Paulie unexpectedly got a large inheritance?"

"What are you talking about?" Giuseppe immediately scolded, "Are you doubting Mr. Paoli?"

"Oh no, I was just kidding."

Bartolio waved his hands quickly, but exchanged glances with the other two people who went to London with him that time.

After the meeting, the three of them immediately went to Girolamo's house.

"You doubt that the £2 was not burned at all?"

"Yes, what was burned might just be waste paper." Bartolio stared at the others and said, "I don't want to doubt Mr. Paulie, but with such a large sum of money, no one can guarantee that they won't be tempted."

What he didn't say was that the money was originally intended to be distributed to people like him, so no one should try to get it!

"So what are your plans?"

"Send people to the Netherlands and the United States to check!"

(End of this chapter)