ON THE TRACK Professor Le Beau kept a school of dancing in Pimlico, and incessantly trained pupils for the stage.

Many of them had appeared with more or less success in the ballets at the Empire and Alhambra, and he was widely known amongst stage-struck aspirants as charging moderately and teaching in a most painstaking manner.

He thus made an income which, if not large, was at least secure, and was assisted in the school by his niece, Peggy Garthorne.

She was the manager of his house and looked after the money, otherwise the little professor would never have been able to lay aside for the future.

But when the brother of the late Madame Le Beau--an Englishwoman--died, his sister took charge of the orphan.