Pittrino.

"He thought most of the legend," said Cropole.

"The proof of the importance in which he held the figures,"
said Pittrino, "is that he desired they should be
likenesses, and they are so."

"Yes; but if they had not been so, who would have recognized
them without the legend? At the present day even, when the
memory of the Blaisois begins to be faint with regard to
these two celebrated persons, who would recognize Catherine
and Mary without the words `To the Medici'?"

"But the figures?" said Pittrino, in despair; for he felt
that young Cropole was right. "I should not like to lose the
fruit of my labor."

"And I should not wish you to be thrown into prison and
myself into the oubliettes."

"Let us efface `Medici,' " said Pittrino, supplicatingly.

"No," replied Cropole, firmly. "I have got an idea, a
sublime idea -- your picture shall appear, and my legend
likewise. Does not `Medici' mean doctor, or physician, in
Italian?"

"Yes, in the plural."