Very well, then, let us put in place of the rue de la Chaise the waiting-room of the Gare Montparnasse.

Sometimes it is quite empty.

Well, that's done." He gummed the envelope and felt a kind of relief.

"Ah! I was forgetting.

Garcon! The Bottin de Paris." He searched for the name Maubel, thinking that by some chance it might be her own.