The rest I leave to my notary.

Who lives opposite ?" he asked, as they left the house.
"Emigres," answered the post master, "named Portenduere." The house once bought, the illustrious doctor, instead of leaving there, wrote to his nephew to let it.

The Folie-Levraught was therefore occupied by the notary of Nemours, who about that time sold his practice to Dionis, his head-clerk, and died two years later, leaving the house on the doctor's hands, just at the time when the fate of Napoleon was being decided in the neighbourhood.

The doctor's heirs, at first misled, had by this time decided that his thought of returning to his native place was merely a rich man's fancy, and that probably he had some tie in Paris which would keep him there and cheat them of their hoped-for inheritance.

However, Minoret-Levrault's wife seized the occasion to write him a letter.