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But in the mean time he had reached his hotel, the Hotel des Folies. After a moment of hesitation, "Bash!" he thought, "I have the whole day to call at the office of the paper."
Two assistants in the printing-room faithful patrons of the Folies Dramatiques declared that they had seen Madame Risler several times at their theatre, accompanied by some escort who kept out of sight at the rear of the box. Pere Achille, too, told of amazing things. That Sidonie had a lover, that she had several lovers, in fact, no one entertained a doubt.
That evening he went again to the Folies Bergère in the hope of finding the mysterious woman, for he was now more than ever anxious to discover who she was. It even occurred to him that she might be one of those beautiful Nihilist conspirators, or, perhaps, a Russian spy, such as he had read of in novels.
Much to the annoyance of the Turkish officers, I often thereafter took the pretty Cecelia away from the Folies, after her performance, for a drive, and I began to compare her small confidences with certain bits of information that Kim had given me.
Having thus a common existence, both young, free, and having their rooms divided only by a narrow passage it was difficult that people should believe in the innocence of their intercourse. The proprietors of the Hotel des Folies believed nothing of the kind; and they were not alone in that opinion. Mlle.
Balzac says, 'All women are not to themselves what no one else is to another. Do you not agree with him?" "Cheese it!" says the Princess. "Philosophy palls upon me. I'll shake you." "Hosses?" says the Count. Arm and arm they go out to the salon au Beurre. Armande de Fleury, the young pianissimo danseuse from the Folies Bergere is about to sing.
Monsieur Georges 'e die. As for me I go 'ome to ze old Folies Bergeres, and for six months I wait a leetle ugly nobody with long thin legs dancing with ten other ugly leetle nobodies with all sorts of legs be'ind La Jolleta. You don't remember 'er, 'hein! Ah, c'est vieux jeu ca and you are all too young, Mesdames et Messieurs. She was ze passion of your grandpapas. God knows why.
'What has happened? Kate asked, and Dick, his face aglow, related how the pal had spoken of a great revival of interest in comic opera, especially in French music, and that many city men with plenty of money were on the lookout for somebody who knew how to produce this class of work and was in sympathy with the Folies Dramatiques tradition.
Two minutes later he made his reappearance in the café by the front way, and went to his place behind the counter with the satisfied face of a successful diplomatist. His little sanctum was typical in its arrangement of the Parisian bourgeois. Numerous picture post-cards of a famous chanteuse of the Folies Bergeres proclaimed Monsieur's taste in beauty.
"Monsieur," said the younger visitor, "I am a dramatic artist, and as I am about to make my first appearance in this quarter, I allow myself to hope that a journal of this locality will favor me." "At what theatre?" asked la Peyrade. "The Folies, where I am engaged for the Dejazets." "The Folies?" echoed la Peyrade, in a tone that demanded an explanation.
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