rs of business, on behalf of
his employer's clients. I suppose there will be no difficulty with the
police in this change of name, now that passports for the English are
not necessary?"

"Certainly not. You will have no trouble in that respect."

"I shall thus be enabled very naturally to improve acquaintance with the
professional letter-writer, and find an easy opportunity to introduce
the name of Louise Duval. My chief difficulty, I fear, not being a
practical actor, will be to keep up consistently the queer sort of
language I have adopted, both in French and in English. I have too sharp
a critic in a man so consummate himself in stage trick and disguise
as M. Lebeau not to feel the necessity of getting through my role as
quickly as I can. Meanwhile, can you recommend me to some magasin
where I can obtain a suitable change of costume? I can't always wear a
travelling suit, and I must buy linen of coarser texture than mine, and
with the initials of my new name inscribed on it."

"Quite right to study such details; I will introduce you to a magasin
near the Temple, where you will find all you want."

"Next, have you any friends or relations in the provinces unknown to
M. Lebeau, to whom I might be supposed to write about debts or business
matters, and from whom I might have replies?"

"I will think over it, and manage that for you very easily. Your letters
shall find their way to me, and I will dictate the answers."

After some further conversation on that business, M. Renard made an
appointment to meet Graham at a cafe near the Temple later in the
afternoon, and took his departure.

Graham then informed his laquais de place that, though he kept on his
lodgings, he was going into the country for a few days, and should not
want the man's services till he returned. He therefore dismissed and
paid him off at once, so that the laquais might not observe, when he
quitted his rooms the next day, that he took with him no change of
clothes, etc.

CHAPTER VIII.

Graham Vane has been for some days in the apartment rented of M.
Georges. He takes it in the name of Mr. Lamb,--a name wisely chosen,
less common than Thompson and Smith, less likely to be supposed an
assumed name, yet common enough not to be able easily to trace it to any
special family. He appears, as he had proposed, in the character of an
agent employed by a solicitor in London to execute sundry commissions
and to collect certain outstanding debts. Th