from town, where he
stayed with her all night; and having boarded her on a genteel pension,
and settled the economy of his future visits, returned next day to his
own lodgings.

While he thus enjoyed his success, her husband endured the tortures of
the damned. When he returned from the coffee-house, and understood
that his wife had eloped, without being perceived by any person in the
family, he began to rave and foam with rage and jealousy; and, in the
fury of distraction, accused the landlady of being an accomplice in her
escape, threatening to complain of her to the commissaire. The woman
could not conceive how Mrs. Hornbeck, who she knew was an utter stranger
to the French language, and kept no sort of company, could elude the
caution of her husband, and find any refuge in a place where she had
no acquaintance, and began to suspect the lodger's emotion was no other
than an affected passion to conceal his own practices upon his wife, who
had perhaps fallen a sacrifice to his jealous disposition. She therefore
spared him the trouble of putting his menaces into execution by going to
the magistrate, without any further deliberation, and giving an account
of what she knew concerning this mysterious affair, with certain
insinuations against Hornbeck's character, which she represented as
peevish and capricious to the last degree.

While she thus anticipated the purpose of the plaintiff, her information
was interrupted by the arrival of the party himself, who exhibited
his complaint with such evident marks of perturbation, anger, and
impatience, that the commissaire could easily perceive that he had
no share in the disappearance of his wife, and directed him to the
lieutenant de police, whose province it is to take cognizance of such
occurrences. This gentleman, who presides over the city of Paris, having
heard the particulars of Hornbeck's misfortune, asked if he suspected
any individual person as the seducer of his yoke-fellow; and when he
mentioned Peregrine as the object of his suspicion, granted a warrant
and a detachment of soldiers, to search for and retrieve the fugitive.

The husband conducted them immediately to the academy where our hero
lodged; and having rummaged the whole place, to the astonishment of
Mr. Jolter, without finding either his wife or the supposed ravisher,
accompanied them to all the public-houses in the Faubourg, which having
examined also without success, he returned to the magistrate in a sta