THE TOILET OF THE CHEVALIER DU CEVENNES The Chevalier du Cevennes occupied the apartment on the first floor of the Hotel of the Silver Candlestick, in the Rue Guenegaud.

The apartment consisted of three rooms.

In all Paris there was not to be found the like of them.

They were not only elegant, they were simple; for true elegance is always closely allied to simplicity.

Persian rugs covered the floors, rugs upon which many a true believer had knelt in evening prayer; Moorish tapestries hung from the walls, making a fine and mellow background for the various pieces of ancient and modern armor; here and there were Greek marbles and Italian vases; and several spirited paintings filled the gaps left between one tapestry and another.