appear as short as agreeable."

Lady Helena and Miss Grant were too astonished to be able to utter
a single word. The presence of this intruder on the poop of the DUNCAN
was perfectly inexplicable.

Lord Glenarvan was more collected, and said, "Sir, to whom have I
the honor of speaking?"

"To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the
Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies
of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna,
and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and
Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having
spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study,
wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain
for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps
of great travelers."


CHAPTER VII JACQUES PAGANEL IS UNDECEIVED


THE Secretary of the Geographical Society was evidently an
amiable personage, for all this was said in a most charming manner.
Lord Glenarvan knew quite well who he was now, for he had
often heard Paganel spoken of, and was aware of his merits.
His geographical works, his papers on modern discoveries, inserted in
the reports of the Society, and his world-wide correspondence,
gave him a most distinguished place among the LITERATI of France.