34, Marche.

Thirty-four, Marche, said, yes--M.
Bocquet--it was quite true: nevertheless, it was clear that monsieur meant Sebastian aine, on the Molard.

The Molard knew only a younger Sebastian, but suggested that the right man was probably M.
Gignoux-Chavaz, over the way; and when it was objected that Gignoux-Bocquet, and not Gignoux-Chavaz, was the name, the Molard replied that it made no matter,--Chavaz or Bocquet, it was all the same.

When M.Gignoux-Chavaz was found, he said that he certainly was a man who had something to do with a glaciere, but, instead of farming the Glaciere of S.Georges, he had only bought a considerable quantity of ice two years ago from the Glaciere of S.Livres, and he did not believe that the _fermier_ of S.Georges lived in Geneva.

Part of the confusion was due to the custom of placing a wife's maiden name after her husband's name: thus Gignoux-Chavaz implies that a male Gignoux has married a female Chavaz; and when a Swiss marries an English lady with a very English name, the result in the Continental mouth is sufficiently curious.
On arriving at the entrance to the glaciere, the end of a suggestive ladder is seen under the protecting trunks; and after one or two steps have been taken down the ladder, the effect of the cave below is extremely remarkable, the main features being a long wall covered thickly with white ice in sheets, a solid floor of darker-coloured ice, and a high pyramid of snow reaching up towards the uncovered hole already spoken of.