I can't help pitying that unlucky Risler, though.

No! the best way is to tell Madame Chebe.

Will you undertake to do it, sister ?" It was a dangerous commission.

Mademoiselle Planus made some objections, but she never had been able to resist her brother's wishes, and the desire to be of service to their old friend Risler assisted materially in persuading her.
Thanks to his son-in-law's kindness, M.Chebe had succeeded in gratifying his latest whim.

For three months past he had been living at his famous warehouse on the Rue du Mail, and a great sensation was created in the quarter by that shop without merchandise, the shutters of which were taken down in the morning and put up again at night, as in wholesale houses.