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Legrand led the way with decision, pausing only for an instant, here and there, to consult what appeared is to be certain landmarks of his own contrivance upon a former occasion. In this manner we journeyed for about two hours, and the sun was just setting when we entered a region infinitely more dreary than any yet seen.

"Jupiter," said he, when he reached its foot, "come here! was the skull nailed to the limb with the face outwards, or with the face to the limb?" "De face was out, massa, so dat de crows could get at de eyes good, widout any trouble." "Well, then, was it this eye or that through which you dropped the beetle?" here Legrand touched each of Jupiter's eyes.

She will explain how she came to be in your house, and your friends will be asking why you took any one they did not send to you. An awkward question, Legrand." "I shall easily answer that. The difficulty is for you, my friend. How will you explain your dealings with an aristocrat for whom all Paris is hunting?" "More easily perhaps than you imagine." "You cannot, you cannot.

"You scoundrel," said Legrand, hissing out the syllables from between his clenched teeth, "you infernal black villain! speak, I tell you! answer me this instant, without prevarication! which which is your left eye?"

That is past and gone. What now remains to me?" "Very little," answered LeGrand Blossom. "I may be able to pull the business through and save something, but there is a lot of money lost spent or gone somewhere. I haven't yet found out. Your father speculated too much, and unwisely. I told him, but he would pay no heed to me."

Hull, in which that gentleman said that he should do himself the honour of calling on her the following day. He said she might be interested to know that he had already received several communications from Mrs. Legrand, through mediums, in which she had declared herself well content to have died in demonstrating so great a truth as that immortality is not individual, but personal.

Legrand the actor, a contemporary of Regnard, was one of the first comic poets who gained celebrity for after-pieces in verse, a species of composition in which the French have since produced a number of elegant trifles. He has not, however, risen to any thing like the same height of posthumous fame as Regnard: La Harpe dismisses him with very little ceremony.

I wish to see you to-night, upon business of importance. I assure you that it is of the highest importance. Ever yours, William Legrand. There was something in the tone of this note which gave me great uneasiness. Its whole style differed materially from that of Legrand. What could he be dreaming of? What new crotchet possessed his excitable brain?

As Harry Bartlett turned aside, waving back the curiosity seekers that were already leaving the former scene of excitement for the latest, LeGrand Blossom came up. He seemed very cool and not at all excited, considering what had happened. "I will look after Miss Carwell," he said. "Perhaps you had better see to Mr. Carwell Mr. Carwell's remains, Blossom," suggested Captain Poland.

"A bargain is a bargain, my good doctor, and I do not part with my money until you have completed your work. I shall expect you in an hour." Legrand hesitated. "I cannot get away," said Bruslart, "but there is a possibility that you might not return." "You are over careful," was the answer. "I have my head to consider," Bruslart laughed. "No man pays the doctor before he has taken his physic."