Melusin!" Very much surprised, the grocer ceased his avocation and hastened to obey the summons.

"How the deuce does the man know me ?" muttered he, forgetting that his name was over the door in gilt letters fully six inches long.
"Sir," said Daddy Tantaine, without giving the grocer time to speak, "did not a young woman come here about half an hour ago and change a note for five hundred francs ?" "Most certainly," answered M.Melusin; "but how did you know that?
Ah, I have it!" he added, striking his forehead; "there has been a robbery, and you are in pursuit of the criminal.

I must confess that the girl looked so poor, that I guessed there was something wrong.

I saw her fingers tremble." "Pardon me," returned Daddy Tantaine.

"I have said nothing about a robbery.