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Updated: July 23, 2025
All this by way of preamble to the statement that I had comfortably settled down in Royat a week before Les Petit Patou were billed to appear in Clermont-Ferrand.
Now that you all know about Clermont-Ferrand, as the ancient writers say, I will tell you about Royat. You take a tram from Vercingetorix and after a straight mile you are landed at the foot of a cup of the aforesaid encircling mountains, and, looking around, when the tram refuses to go any further owing to lack of rails, you perceive that you are in Royat-les-Bains.
He must never be crossed, for anger, going upstairs, and walking are the worst things for him.... Yet he is very cheerful and has been all along. He is never frightened." Driven from Hyères by the cholera, they sought a temporary refuge at an enchanting little watering-place near Clermont-Ferrand called Royat, in whose healing springs Cæsar himself had once bathed.
Abstain! And one said, 'I have well diagnosed thee, and thou art in a fair way to have the gout. 'I never did better in my days, said Brother John. 'Away with thy meats and drinks! they cried. And one said, 'He must to Royat; and another, 'Hence with him to Aix; and a third, 'Banish him to Wiesbaden; and a fourth, 'Hale him to Gastein; and yet another, 'To Barbouille with him in chains!
She seemed to be hovering over that vast extent of country like a mournful ghost, and I asked him abruptly: "What has become of the husband?" My friend seemed rather surprised, but after a few moments' hesitation, he replied: "He is living at Royat, on an allowance that they make, and is quite happy; he leads a very fast life."
"She began to grow thin; every other thought, every other wish, every other expectation and every other confused hope, disappeared from her mind, and the hours during which she did not see him, became hours of terrible suffering to her. Soon he used frequently not to come home at night; he spent them with women at the casino at Royat, and did not come home until daybreak.
My three friends were lunching with me on the terrace of the Royat Palace Hotel. It is a long, wide terrace, reaching the whole width of the facade of the building, and doors lead on to it from all the public rooms. Only half of it, directly accessible from the salle a manger is given over to restaurant tables. Ours was on the outskirts.
"She began to grow thin; every other thought, every other wish, every other expectation, and every confused hope disappeared from her mind, and the hours during which she did not see him became hours of terrible suffering to her. Soon he ceased to come home regularly of nights; he spent them with women at the casino at Royat and did not come home until daybreak.
"I've been waiting for that polite offer for the last half hour," she replied. What I said, I said to myself to the midmost self of my inmost being. I am not going to tell you what it was. This isn't the secret history of my life. A cloud came up over the shoulder of the hills. We descended to the miniature valley of Royat. "It's going to rain," I said. "Let it," said Auriol unconcerned.
I glanced at the writing on the envelope. "From Bakkus!" I said. "Tell me" to the chauffeur "how did you come by it?" "Monsieur charged me to deliver it into the hands of Monsieur le Capitaine. I have this moment returned to Royat." "Ah," said I. "You drove the automobile? Where is Monsieur Bakkus?" "That," said he, "I have pledged my honour not to divulge."
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