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DEVILS AGAINST DEVILS.
During the extreme poverty of la Peyrade's first years in Paris, none but Cerizet had ever gone to see him in the wretched garret where, in severely cold weather, he stayed in bed for want of clothes.

Only one shirt remained to him.

For three days he lived on one loaf of bread, cutting it into measured morsels, and asking himself, "What am I to do ?" At this moment it was that his former partner came to him, having just left prison, pardoned.

The projects which the two men then formed before a fire of laths, one wrapped in his landlady's counterpane, the other in his infamy, it is useless to relate.