"I know nothing about them except that they are distinctive, and one cannot fail, of course, to admire the young lady." "You have seen them often ?" Louis asked, in a low tone.
"I told you, Louis," I answered, "that my mission in Paris is of the nature of a search.

For ten days I have haunted all the places where one goes,--the Race Course, the Bois, the Armenonville and Pre Catelan, the Rue de la Paix, the theatres.

I have seen them nearly every day.

To-night they were at the Opera." "You know nothing of them beyond that ?" Louis persisted.
"Nothing whatever," I declared.

"I am not a boulevarder, Louis," I continued slowly, "and in England, you know, it is not the custom to stare at women as these Frenchmen seem to do with impunity.