Two tired-out omnibus horses, of a yellowish-white, and showing their ribs, were rubbing their noses against each other like a caress; then the horse on the left raised his head and placed it in a friendly way upon the other's mane.

Louise pointed to the two animals and said to Amedee, smilingly: "Their fate is hard, is it not?
No matter! they are good friends, and that is enough to help them endure it." Then, shaking hands with Amedee, she climbed lightly up into the carriage.
All that day at the office Amedee was uneasy about his father, and about four o'clock, a little before the time for his departure, he went to M.
Violette's office.

There they told him that his father had just left, saying that he would dine at Grand Montrouge with an old friend; and Amedee, a trifle reassured, decided to rejoin his friend Maurice at the Foyot restaurant..