" "Ah, so that's it, that's it!" said Princess Myakaya gleefully, "they're going to ask Landau what he's to say.

" "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.

And wonderful advice it was! Then the wife of Yury Meledinsky--you know, the invalid?--heard of this Landau, and had him to see her husband.