The Parisians, Book 4.

rival of M. Lebeau. His patience was not tasked long. In a few minutes the Frenchman entered, paused at the comptoir, as was his habit, to address a polite salutation to the well-dressed lady w

speaking in a voice too low to be hear

, that this Louise Duval or her children, if she have any, must be entitled to some moneys beque

re the date named, any such moneys will go to some one else; and that some one else, whoever he be, has commissioned my employer to find out. But I don't imagine any sum due to her or her heirs can be much,

ll me who em

ecessity of it. It seems to me, on consideration, a matter for the police

possible that I might help you bett

ever know this

efuse me your full confidence; a

ead and cheese. Whereas you have nobody's secret to guard but your own, in saying whether or not you ever knew a Madame or Mademoiselle Duval; and if you have some reason for not getting me the information I am instructed to obtain, that is also a r

d, the shoulder which the Englishman had so pleasantly touch

t may be to her injury, and I would do her none if you offered thousands where you offer pounds. I forestall the condition of mutual confidence; I own that I have known her,-it i

he said aloud; "but as I don't know what my employer's motive in his commissio

have married an Englishman, separated from him, and he wants to know where he can find

at is not

known has left her a bequest, which would of co

you hit the right nail on the h

result from the success of your inquiry, I would really see if i

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say; perhaps th

s M. Georges. I leave you to

im, which he scanned with careful eyes, no longer screened by spectacles. The survey seemed to satisfy him. He murmured, "It suffices, the t

change. I propose now to devote no inconsiderable portion of our fund towards the inauguration of a journal which shall gradually give voice to our designs. Trust me to insure its success, and obtain the aid of writers who will have no notion of the uses to which they ultimately contribute. Now that the time has come to establish for ourselves an organ in the press, addressing higher orders of intelligence than those which are needed to destroy and incapable of reconstructing, the time has also arrived for the reappearance in his proper name and rank of the man in whom you take so gracious an interest. In vain you have pressed him to do so before; till now

n fortune, is a task that may well seem impossible. To-morrow he takes the first step towards the achievement of

hear of hi