At any rate, it obliterated Bernard's scruples very effectually, and led him on his arrival in Paris to repair instantly to the Rue de Provence.

This street contains more than one banker, but there is one with whom Bernard deemed Mrs.Vivian most likely to have dealings.

He found he had reckoned rightly, and he had no difficulty in procuring her address.

Having done so, however, he by no means went immediately to see her; he waited a couple of days--perhaps to give those obliterated scruples I have spoken of a chance to revive.

They kept very quiet, and it must be confessed that Bernard took no great pains to recall them to life.