Book Two: The Ship Orion (Part Two: Cosette)
(Hapgood translation on Kindle)
Chapter 1: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430, Location 6711-6756
"Jean Valjean had been recaptured." He managed to withdraw over half a million from the bank first though, and hid it somewhere. He was sentenced to life and taken to Toulon. His new number was 9430. Montreuil sur Mer went to shit once he was gone, and the cost of collecting taxes doubled in four years.
Chapter 2: In Which the Reader will Peruse Two Verses, Which are of the Devil's Composition, Possibly, Location 6758-6832
There's a very old superstition in Montfermeil, that the devil sometimes hides his treasure in the forrest. So apparently people sometimes see the devil burying his treasure at night, and later try to dig it up themselves. Shortly after Jean Valjean was said to have been in those parts, an ex-convict called Boulatruelle, who had spent time in the galleys, was seen secretively digging holes in the forest. Most assumed he was looking for the devil's treasure, but Thenardier and the school master questioned him and worked out that he'd seen someone he recognised from the galleys bury something in the forest. He didn't manage to find anything though.
Chapter 3: The Ankle-Chain Must have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer, Location 6835-6958
Towards the end of October 1823, the ship Orion came into Toulon to be repaired, and attracted a crowd. One day a sailor working on it fell, and ended up dangling by a rope high above the sea. No-one dared go to his aid, until suddenly everyone saw an old convict agilely climbing the rigging. He'd been working on the ship, and had asked permission to go save the sailor's life. He'd broken his ankle-chain with one blow of his hammer and rushed to save the man. The convict succeeded, and brought the sailor back to his comrades. But on his way back to where he'd been working, the convict was seen to stagger and fall into the sea. It was a perilous fall. They searched for him all evening, but couldn't even find his body. The following day, November 17th, the Toulon newspaper reported the death of this man - "his name was Jean Valjean."