Debienne and Poligny were retiring from the management of the National Academy of Music.

Business was impossible with so unreasonable a ghost.
"'Certainly, two hundred and forty thousand francs are not be picked up for the asking,' said M.Poligny, without moving a muscle of his face.
'And have you considered what the loss over Box Five meant to us?
We did not sell it once; and not only that, but we had to return the subscription: why, it's awful! We really can't work to keep ghosts! We prefer to go away!' "'Yes,' echoed M.Debienne, 'we prefer to go away.

Let us go.'" "And he stood up.

Richard said: 'But, after all all, it seems to me that you were much too kind to the ghost.

If I had such a troublesome ghost as that, I should not hesitate to have him arrested.' "'But how?
Where ?' they cried, in chorus.