One day, Bonaparte accompanied the viscountess on a visit to Ragideau, the smallest man but the greatest lawyer in Paris.

But the knowledge did not greatly affect the viscountess, and he did not trust her.

There was not a waiter who saw the younger woman's shame who did not long to choke the viscountess.

You are committing a folly, viscountess, for you want to marry a man who has nothing but his hat and his sword.

"I wish you could have induced the viscountess to come with us," said Tom, "we should have been all the better for her help.

' Her ladyship's glance fell, as she spoke, on the stout red-faced gentleman in the splashed boots and Ramillies, who had asked two questions of the servant; and who, to judge by the attention with which he followed my lady's words, was not proof against the charm which invests a viscountess.

'It's God's mercy and her madness,' quoth the viscountess piously.

But what was the mysterious bond between La Cordifiamma and the American, which had prevented Scoutbush from following the example of his illustrious progenitor, and taking a viscountess from off the stage?