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"You may light the candle now," she whispered; "then we will go back to Lisette." Laczko lighted the candle, then shouldered his gun, and preceded his young mistress down the staircase to the lower story. They had almost reached the door of Lisette's room when Marie, who had been peering sharply ahead, stopped abruptly, and exclaimed in a startled tone: "There is a man!"
The consultation held by these sages, which respects everything save the case of the patient the ceremonious difficulty with which they are at first brought to deliver their opinions the vivacity and fury with which each finally defends his own, menacing the instant death of the patient if any other treatment be observed, seemed all to the public highly comical, and led many reflecting men to think Lisette was not far wrong in contending that a patient should not be said to die of a fever or a consumption, but of four doctors and two apothecaries.
Lisette thought a minute, then she told her to go on to a village about a mile distant, where, in a couple of hours, a train would make a brief stop at a crossing. This, she said, would bear her back in the same direction she had come, but she could go on to Nice, where she could take an express direct for Paris.
"Excuse me, Lisette," humbly apologized the lad, "but our young mistress from the manor is here." At this announcement Lisette hastily shut the door again, and opened a small loophole in an upper panel, through which she spoke in a sharp tone: "Why do you come here? Has the Lord forsaken you over yonder, that you come back to this pest-house? Get out of it as quickly as you can.
Lisette snapped her fingers. "Ah, oui! He loves her so well that he will strangle her one of these days when she says a word too much and he is in his sombre mood! Quiet as he is, I would not go too far with him, ce beau monsieur! He will not be patient always you will see!" She went on her way, and the waiters remained at the window in the corridor.
The police constable at first thought he was intoxicated, but the doctor, on being called, declared that my father was suffering from poison. He was at once taken to St. George's Hospital, but an hour later he died without recovering consciousness." "And what was your father's name?" asked Lisette in a strangely altered voice. "Henfrey."
"Allen could be made something," said Elvira, "I know, for he told me he could get himself made a baronet. He always does as I tell him. Will they be very poor, Lisette?" "Oh no, my dear, generous child, Mrs. Brownlow was quite as well provided for as she had any right to expect. You need have no anxieties on that score."
When they left the museum it was getting late in the afternoon, and Lisette decreed that her young ladies must go home at once. The Van Ness crowd raised great objection to this, but Lisette was obdurate, and calling a cab, she ushered the girls in, and then getting in herself, gave the order for home. Patty couldn't help laughing at the serious way in which Lisette took care of them, but Mrs.
Silvani You will understand, Madame, that if I had to remember the names of all the lady's-maids who help me, I should need six clerks instead of four. Lisette is a pretty name which suits all these young ladies very well. Lisette, show me your mistress's dress. Good. Is the ball an official one? Madame But dress my hair, Silvani.
"Exactly, my dear unsuspicious dove. There! I see you are impatient. You will know the truth soon enough. One kiss, for your mother's sake." But Elvira broke from her, and rejoined Allen. "I have sounded the child," said Lisette to her husband that evening, "and she is quite in the dark, though the very servants in the house are better informed." "Better informed than the fact, may be," said Mr.
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