I shall find out if they have news of the Palatine,"-- the name he gave Gorka in his moments of gayety.

"I shall talk in a loud voice of anonymous letters.

If the author of those received by Boleslas is there, I shall be in the best position to discover him; provided that it is not Alba....

Decidedly--that would be sad!" It was ten o'clock in the evening, when the young man, faithful to his programme, arrived at the door of the large house on the Rue du Vingt Septembre occupied by Madame Steno.

It was an immense modern structure, divided into two distinct parts; to the left a revenue building and to the right a house on the order of those which are to be seen on the borders of Park Monceau.