CHAPTER XXIX.
CAPTAIN TREVANION'S ADVENTURE.
As the day was now waning apace, and I was still unprovided with any one who could act as my second, I set out upon a search through the various large hotels in the neighbourhood, trusting that amid my numerous acquaintance I should be fortunate enough to find some of them at Paris.
With a most anxious eye I scanned the lists of arrivals at the usual haunts of my countrymen, in the Rue Rivoli, and the Place Vendome, but without success; there were long catalogues of "Milors," with their "couriers," &c.

but not one name known to me in the number.
I repaired to Galignani's library, which, though crowded as ever with English, did not present to me one familiar face.

From thence I turned into the Palais Royale, and at last, completely jaded by walking, and sick from disappointment, I sat down upon a bench in the Tuilleries Garden.
I had scarcely been there many minutes when a gentleman accosted me in English, saying, "May I ask if this be your property ?" showing, at the same time, a pocket-book which I had inadvertently dropped in pulling out my handkerchief.

As I thanked him for his attention, and was about to turn away, I perceived that he continued to look very steadily at me.

At length he said, "I think I am not mistaken; I have the pleasure to see Mr.Lorrequer, who may perhaps recollect my name, Trevanion of the 43rd.