"He was found, this evening, hanging in the third cellar, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore." The two managers, or rather ex-managers, at once rose and stared strangely at the speaker.

They were more excited than they need have been, that is to say, more excited than any one need be by the announcement of the suicide of a chief scene-shifter.

They looked at each other.

They, had both turned whiter than the table-cloth.

At last, Debienne made a sign to Mm.