" "With the murderer!" "Oh! accidentallyhe knew him by sight, went to the same café, that's all, and they had played at pool together, Joseph and the murderera man named Nicot.

'It was love, Monsieur, love; Nicot had met a girl, named Eugénie' 'You knew the victim, too?'

Though Columbus and his immediate followers doubtless brought home specimens of tobacco among the other spoils of the New World, Jean Nicot, ambassador to Portugal from Francis II., first sent the seeds to France, where they were cultivated and used about the year 1560.