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Pichon père was a propriétaire as well; his property was that which is now in the possession of Giraudier, pharmacien, première classe, and which was destined to attain a sinister celebrity during his proprietorship.

She was a German Fredechen we call 'er and she could make Sauerkraut eh bien, I moi qui vous parle une bonne Francaise I make myself sick with 'er Sauerkraut. Afterwards she grow too stout and marry ze proprietaire of what you call it? a public-'ouse 'Ze Crown and Garter' at some town where we stop a week. By now, I think she 'ave many children and a chin for each." Cosgrave laughed noisily.

She trudged home as hastily as her legs could bear her. No, Madame Valière had not arrived. "They have persuaded her to stay another day," said Madame la Propriétaire. "She will come by the evening train, or she will write." Madame Dépine passed the evening at the Gare de Lyon, and came home heavy of heart and weary of foot.

Then the woman shrugged her shoulders and spoke out. If he really must know, she thought there was no doubt at all that where Monsieur Montjoie was, Mademoiselle Louie was too. Monsieur Montjoie had paid the arrears of his rent to the proprietaire, somehow or other, and had then made a midnight flitting of it so as to escape other creditors who were tired of waiting for his statue to be finished.

Madame Rupprecht had been out all morning, as she told me, to glean information about Monsieur de la Tourelle. He was a propriétaire, had a small château on the Vosges mountains; he owned land there, but had a large income from some sources quite independent of this property. Altogether, he was a good match, as she emphatically observed.

"Without doubt, she gave you the idea. Quelle farceuse! I don't believe there ever was a Princess. The family was always inflated." All Madame Dépine's world seemed toppling. Somehow her own mistake added to her sense of having been exploited. "Still," said Madame la Propriétaire with a shrug, "it is only three weeks' rent." "If you lose it, I will pay!" Madame Dépine had an heroic burst of faith.

Had you written one word I would have saved all. The poor concierge was in despair; she said the propriétaire would wait if you had only said when you were coming back, or if you only had let us know what you wished to be done. Three quarters rent was due, and no news could be obtained of you, so an auction had to be called. She seemed to resent the intrusion.

Perchance these ladies are accompanied by pure-minded daughters, all unthinking of the frightful contamination of the numbers of so-called "ladies of fashion" habitués and hirelings, decoys simply in the pay of the gambling propriétaire. It is impossible to know the moral injury it will do these innocent young girls.

The first version of it, entitled "Le Grand Proprietaire," was begun about 1835, and the Vicomte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul in his interesting book entitled "La Genese d'un Roman de Balzac," gives the text of this, the MS. of which forms part of his collection.

At the time of the formation of the second French Republic in 1848, when the cry of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity!" was in every one's mouth, Lord Brougham somewhat astonished the world by enrolling himself as a citizen of the Republic, resting his qualification upon the fact of his being a land-owner propriétaire at Cannes.