“Exactly, turned grocer.”

“I know; Rue des Lombards?”

“Somewhere thereabouts, or Rue des Arcis.”

“I will find it, monsieur,—I will find it.”

“You will say a thousand kind things to him, on my part, and ask him to come and dine with me before I set out for La Fere.”

“Yes, monsieur.”

“Good-night, Raoul!”

“Monsieur, I see you wear an order I never saw you wear before; accept my compliments!”

“The Fleece! that is true. A bauble, my boy, which no longer amuses an old child like myself. Goodnight, Raoul!”

CHAPTER 52.
D’Artagnan’s Lesson