Tum-tum, ta-ta-ta.

.

." He hummed a few bars of Gluck's "Paride ed Elenna," and paused, with the gesture of one holding a fiddle, on the verge of a reminiscence.

"There was a time--but I no longer compete.

And to whom, General, are we indebted for this--ah--treat ?" General Rochambeau indicated young Raoul, who stepped forward from the wall and answered, with a respectful inclination: "Well, M.le Commissaire, in the first place to Captain Seymour." The General bit his moustache; Endymion frowned.