.)

The officer
It is marked with a J and an R. My dear sir, you are not very clever!

Joseph
What can he have done? Have you anything to do with it, mademoiselle?

Pamela
You are the sole cause of the trouble. Never speak to me again!

The officer
Monsieur, here we have the check for your dinner--you dined at the
Palais Royal. While you were there you wrote a letter in pencil. One
of your friends brought the letter here. His name was M. Adolph
Durand, and he lent you his passport. We are certain of your identity;
you are M. Jules Rousseau.

Joseph
The son of the rich M. Rousseau, whose house we are furnishing?

The sheriff
Hold your tongue!

The officer
You must come with us.

Jules
Certainly, monsieur. (To Giraud and his wife) Forgive the annoyance I
have caused you--and you, Pamela, do not forget me! If you do not see
me again, you may keep what I gave into your hands, and may it bring
you happiness!

Giraud
O Lord!

Pamela
Poor Adolph!

The sheriff (to his agents)
Remain here. We are going to search this attic, and question every one
of these people.

Joseph (with a gesture of horror)
Ah!--she prefers a criminal to me!

(Jules is put in charge of the agents.)

Curtain to the First Act.

ACT II

SCENE FIRST

(The setting is a drawing-room in the Rousseau mansion. Antoine is
looking through the newspapers.)

Antoine and Justine.

Justine
Well, Antoine, have you read the papers?

Antoine
I am reading them. Isn't it a pity that we servants cannot learn,
excepting through the papers, what is going on in the trial of M.
Jules?

Justine
And yet the master and mistress and Mme. du Brocard, their sister,
know nothing. M. Jules has been for three months--in--what do they
call it?--in close confinement.

Antoine
The arrest of the young man has evidently attracted great attention--

Justine
It seems absurd to think that a young man who had nothing to do but
amuse himself, who would some day inherit his aunt's income of twenty
thousand francs, and his father's and mother's fortune, which is quite
double that amount, should be mixed up in a conspiracy!

Antoine
I admire him for it, for they were plotting to bring back the emperor!
You may cause my throat to be cut if you like. We are alone here--you
don't belong to the police;