But he will not amuse you." "I don't know--I don't know!" murmured Valentin, reflectively.

"But we shall very soon see.

Here comes Monsieur mon frere." The door had just opened to give ingress to a gentleman who stepped forward and whose face Newman remembered.

He had been the author of our hero's discomfiture the first time he tried to present himself to Madame de Cintre.

Valentin de Bellegarde went to meet his brother, looked at him a moment, and then, taking him by the arm, led him up to Newman.
"This is my excellent friend Mr.Newman," he said very blandly.