CHAPTER II.
A REGISTRY OFFICE.
The establishment of the influential friend of Daddy Tantaine was situated in the Rue Montorgeuil, not far from the Passage de la Reine Hortense.

M.B.Mascarin has a registry office for the engagement of both male and female servants.

Two boards fastened upon each side of the door announce the hours of opening and closing, and give a list of those whose names are on the books; they further inform the public that the establishment was founded in 1844, and is still in the same hands.

It was the long existence of M.Mascarin in a business which is usually very short-lived that had obtained for him a great amount of confidence, not only in the quarter in which he resided, but throughout the whole of Paris.

Employers say that he sends them the best of servants, and the domestics in their turn assert that he only despatches them to good places.