Vance and Lionel exchanged looks of surprise, and then, by a common impulse, moved towards the stage, pushed aside the curtain, which had fallen, and were in that strange world which has so many reduplications, fragments of one broken mirror, whether in the proudest theatre or the lowliest barn,--nay, whether in the palace of kings, the cabinet of statesmen, the home of domestic life,--the world we call "Behind the Scenes.".