CHAPTER XXII.
THE NEW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.
That day all America heard about the duel and its singular termination.
The part played by the chivalrous European, his unexpected proposition which solved the difficulty, the simultaneous acceptation of the two rivals, that conquest of the lunar continent to which France and the United States were going to march in concert--everything tended to increase Michel Ardan's popularity.

It is well known how enthusiastic the Yankees will get about an individual.

In a country where grave magistrates harness themselves to a dancer's carriage and draw it in triumph, it may be judged how the bold Frenchman was treated.

If they did not take out his horses it was probably because he had none, but all other marks of enthusiasm were showered upon him.

There was no citizen who did not join him heart and mind:--_Ex pluribus unam_, according to the motto of the United States.
From that day Michel Ardan had not a minute's rest.