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Caillette nodded, and taking her artificial flowers again in her hand, she began to separate them. At the same time the door opened and Firejaws appeared in company with two ladies. Fanfaro and Caillette glanced at the unexpected guests and heard the elderly lady say: "Irene, what new caprice is it that brings you here, and what will the countess say if she hears of it?"
Upon his call his wife appeared, a charming brunette about thirty years of age. "Madame Fanfaro," said the colonist, "followed me to the desert." "This is Firejaws, the king of athletes. And now it is the turn of Bobichel, the clown." "It looks to me like a fairy tale," said the count. "Were you really a tight-rope walker and acrobat before?"
"H'm that would be difficult," said Girdel, looking about. "Of course I shall pay extra for the seats," continued the young lady. "We have only one price for the front rows," said Firejaws, simply; "they cost twenty sous and the rear seats ten sous." The governess sighed sorrowfully; Irene took an elegant purse from her pocket and pressed it in Girdel's hand.
Bobichel uttered a cry of joy as he saw the party approach. "Thank God, master," he gleefully cried, "that you are home again. Caillette, Firejaws!" he cried aloud, "he is just returned!" A woman and a giant hurried at Bobichel's call. Fanfaro jumped from his horse, and embraced his wife and daughter. "Irene, have a bed prepared. The child will be intrusted to your care."
The reader will remember that Firejaws, who has died in the meantime, once jokingly compared Fanfaro to a Newfoundland dog, as he found means everywhere to rescue some one. Fanfaro's presence in Paris is soon explained. His wife and his two children could not stand the Algerian climate long, and so they all came to Paris. Monte-Cristo had begged him to keep an eye on Spero.
He belongs to a company of acrobats who give performances in the Place du Chateau d'Eau. They have all such peculiar names. One of them is named Firejaws " "Perfectly right; he is Fanfaro's foster-father, and Fanfaro is your brother." "Who told you so?" "He, himself; he begged me to care for his sister." "But why does he not come? I long to see him." Irene, too, longed to see Fanfaro.
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