trotted rapidly along the Rue Royale and the boulevards, she told

what had happened to Nana in jerky, breathless sentences.

"You can't imagine it. Nana plumps down out of Russia. I don't

know why--some dispute with her prince. She leaves her traps at the

station; she lands at her aunt's--you remember the old thing. Well,

and then she finds her baby dying of smallpox. The baby dies next

day, and she has a row with the aunt about some money she ought to

have sent, of which the other one has never seen a sou. Seems the