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"Permit me to present my friend Monsieur Achille Saupiquet--Monsieur de
Gex, a great English statesman and a friend of that _gnadigsten Engel_,
Madame Lola Brandt."
Monsieur Saupiquet and I saluted each other formally. I took a seat.
Professor Anastasius Papadopoulos moved a bundle of papers tied up with
pink ribbon from in front of me, and ordered coffee and cognac.
"Monsieur Saupiquet also knows Madame Brandt," he explained.
"_Bien sur_," said Monsieur Saupiquet. "She owes me fifteen sous."
Papadopoulos turned on his sharply. "Will you be silent!"
The other grumbled beneath his breath.
"I hope Madame is well," said Papadopoulos.
I said that she appeared so, when last I had the pleasure of seeing her.
The dwarf turned to his friend.
"Monsieur has also done my cats the honour of attending a rehearsal.
He has seen Hephaestus, and his tears have dropped in sympathy over the
irreparable loss of my beautiful Santa Bianca."
"I hope the talented survivors," said I, "are enjoying their usual
health.


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