The countess has been good enough to leave the whole matter in my hands.

I have seen the keepers, and I have arranged that they come to-night at eleven o'clock to see us and to report progress.

They know of three bears, and are attempting to ring them." The Frenchman was really full of information and enthusiasm.

There were many details upon which he required Paul's advice, and the two men talked together with less constraint than they had hitherto done.

De Chauxville had picked up a vast deal of technical matter, and handled his little knowledge with a skill which bade fair to deprive it of its proverbial danger.