'The search for the idea! How splendid! Where must it begin?
Not in fashionable Paris! Oh, not in fashionable Paris!' "Fashionable Paris!" The Irishman laughed in loud disdain.

"Oh no! For us it must be the highways and the byways, eh ?" Max freed his arm.

"Ah yes! that is what I want--that is what I want.
The highways and the byways.

It is necessary that I am very solitary here in Paris.

Quite unknown, you understand ?--quite unnoticed." "The mystery?
I understand.