As the travelers cross the Great St. Bernard, snow, storms, and the dangers of the Alps force people of very different ranks to depend upon one another, while a murder discovered along the route causes suspicion to fall unfairly upon Balthazar because of his despised profession. The investigation gradually overturns these assumptions, and revelations concerning Maso and the Grimaldi family create a further irony about ancestry, legitimacy, and social standing. Baron de Willading ultimately overcomes his inherited prejudices and accepts Adelheid's union with Sigismund, allowing the novel to close on Cooper's argument that character and conduct carry greater moral weight than birth, occupation, or inherited status.
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