'Not that I know of, Madame Faragon: they will not ask me whether
it is to be put off or not.'

'But have they quarrelled with M. Urmand?'

'No; nobody has quarrelled with M. Urmand.'

'Was he there, George?'

'What, with me! No; he was not there with me. I have never seen
the man since I first left Granpere to come here.' And then George
Voss began to think what might have happened had Adrian Urmand been
at the hotel while he was there himself. After all, what could he
have said to Adrian Urmand? or what could he have done to him?

'He hasn't written, has he, to say that he is off his bargain?'
Poor Madame Faragon was almost pathetic in her anxiety to learn what
had really occurred at the Lion d'Or.

'Certainly not. He has not written at all.'

'Then what is it, George?'

'I suppose it is this,--that Marie Bromar cares nothing for him.'

'But so rich as he is! And they say, too, such a good-looking young
man.'

'It is wonderful, is it not? It is next to a miracle that there
should be a girl deaf and blind to such charms. But, nevertheless,