Before getting back to the inn, I stopped under a street lamp, opened my pocket-book, and saw with pleasure that my million was not wet.

The leather was thick, and the clasp firm; moreover, I had enveloped Herr Meiser's check in a half-dozen hundred-franc bills, in a roll as fat as a monk.

These surroundings had preserved it." This examination being made, he went home, went to bed, and slept with his fists clenched.

The next morning he received, on getting up, the following memoranda, which came from the Nancy police: "Clementine Pichon, aged eighteen, minor daughter of Auguste Pichon, hotel-keeper, and Leonie Francelot, was married, in this town, January 11, 1814, to Louis Antoine Langevin; profession not stated.
"The name of Langevin is as rare in this department, as the name of Pichon is common.

With the exception of the Hon.