CHAPTER IX.
DAMON AND PYTHIAS.
I left Rouen the day after my great adventure on the river, and Captain Dalrymple went with me to the station.
"You have my Paris address upon my card," he said, as we walked to and fro upon the platform.

"It's just a bachelor's den, you know--and I shall be there in about a fortnight or three weeks.

Come and look me up." To which I replied that I was glad to be allowed to do so, and that I should "look him up" as soon as he came home.

And so, with words of cordial good-will and a hearty shake of the hand, we parted.
Having started late in the evening, I arrived in Paris between four and five o'clock on a bright midsummer Sunday morning.

I was not long delayed by the customs officers, for I carried but a scant supply of luggage.