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"On his track?" said Villefort

"Yes, the servant has given his description He is a e, dark, with black eyes covered with shaggy eyebrows, and a thick mustache He was dressed in a blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin, and wore at his button-hole the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor Yesterday a person exactly corresponding with this description was followed, but he was lost sight of at the corner of the Rue de la Jussienne and the Rue Coq-Heron" Villefort leaned on the back of an ar he felt his legs bend under hiilance of the agent who followed hiain

"Continue to seek for thisto the minister of police; "for if, as I am all but convinced, General Quesnel, ould have been so useful to us at this moment, has been murdered, his assassins, Bonapartists or not, shall be cruelly punished" It required all Villefort's coolness not to betray the terror hich this declaration of the king inspired hi, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons'"

"Sire, your majesty will, I trust, be amply satisfied on this point at least"

"We shall see I will no longer detain you, M de Villefort, for you o and rest Of course you stopped at your father's?" A feeling of faintness cahted at the Hotel de Madrid, in the Rue de Tournon"

"But you have seen hiht to the Duc de Blacas"

"But you will see hiot," said Louis, s in a manner which proved that all these questions were not ot you and M Noirtier are not on the best terms possible, and that is another sacrifice made to the royal cause, and for which you should be recons to evince towards me is a recompense which so far surpasseset you;here detached the cross of the Legion of Honor which he usually wore over his blue coat, near the cross of St Louis, above the order of Notre-Daave it to Villefort)--"in the meanwhile take this cross"