Chapter 348 V would rather leave the cash in the forest than hand it over to such a notary

No need to explain in detail, everyone already knows that Jean Valjean escaped from prison for the first time in a few days after the Shangmadi case, came to Paris in time, and took out the M. In order to avoid being arrested again, he buried the cash deep in the Brau mine in Montfermeil. Sure enough, he was arrested again soon.Fortunately, the 630,000 francs were small and placed in a box, but in order to protect the box from moisture, he put the cardboard box into a small oak box, which was filled with chestnut wood chips.In the locket, he put in another of his treasures, the bishop's candlestick.We remember that when he fled from Montreuil-sur-Mer, he took this pair of candlesticks with him.It was Jean Valjean who Poulet Liu saw for the first time one evening.Afterwards, whenever Jean Valjean needed money, he went to the mine to get it.This is true of several of his trips we have mentioned.He had a pickaxe hidden in the bushes in a hidden place known only to him.When he saw that Marius had begun to recover, he felt that the time when he needed the money was not far away, so he went to get it; it was he who Poulatus saw in the woods, this time in the early morning. and not in the evening.Pula Tuliuer inherited the pickaxe.

The total was 584,500 francs.Jean Valjean kept five hundred francs for his own use. "We'll see later," he mused. The difference between the 630,000 francs withdrawn from the Lafitte Bank and the present sum is the expenditure of the ten years from 1823 to 1833, and only five thousand spent in the convent for five years. franc. Jean Valjean placed a pair of shining silver candlesticks on the mantelpiece, and Toussaint looked at them with envy. Besides, Jean Valjean knew that he was free from Javert.It had been told before him, and he had seen a notice in the Bulletin, confirming it, that Javert, the police scout, was drowned under a washerwoman's boat between Pont de Exchange and Pont Neuf, This man who had made no mistakes and was highly regarded by the chief left a suicide note, which made people speculate that he committed suicide due to insanity. "In short," thought Jean Valjean, "he has captured me and set me free, and there is no doubt that he has lost his mind."