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 LOUIS DUVAL.




 CHAPTER I.

 THE GARRET.

 ETWEEN sixty and seventy years ago, on a
 dismal April day, in one of the garrets of
 a large house, in one of the narrow streets
 of Paris, were to have been found, had
they been sought, a wrinkled, lame, and half blind
old woman, and a little boy about eight years old.
The old woman's name, spelt English fashion, was
Margaret-Margaret Duval; and that of the boy, who
was her grandson, was Louis Duval.
 That old Margaret and her grandson were very
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