Hegisippe asked for time to consult his comrades.

He returned with news of an ideal spot.

It was a village in the Pyrenees about six thousand feet up in the air and forty miles from a railway station.

They could shoot bears all day long.

When Emmy explained that a village on the top of the Pyrenees was not by the seaside, and that neither she nor his aunt, Madame Bolivard, took any interest in the destruction of bears, he retired somewhat crestfallen and went with his difficulties to Angelique, the young lady in the wine shop in the Rue des Francs-Bouchers.