" "Ask Landau? What for? Who or what's Landau?" "What! you don't know Jules Landau, _le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant_? He's crazy too, but on him your sister's fate depends.

See what comes of living in the provinces--you know nothing about anything.

Landau, do you see, was a _commis_ in a shop in Paris, and he went to a doctor's; and in the doctor's waiting room he fell asleep, and in his sleep he began giving advice to all the patients.