All that I can do for you is to place that sum, in my name, with the notary Dupuis.

He is a religious man; you can see him every Sunday in the warden's pew in our church.

Notaries, you know, never give receipts, therefore I could not give you one myself; I can only promise to leave among my papers, in case of death, a memorandum which will secure the restitution of the money into your hands.

The affair, you see, is one of blind confidence, and I am very unwilling to make it.

If I do so, it is only to oblige a person whose piety and the charitable use she intends to make of the proceeds of her little fortune entitle her to my good-will." "If monsieur thinks that the matter cannot be otherwise arranged--" "This appears to me the only possible way," said la Peyrade.