Poligny pointed with a hesitating finger to this last clause, which we certainly did not expect.

“Is this all? Does he not want anything else?” asked Richard, with the greatest coolness.

“Yes, he does,” replied Poligny.

And he turned over the pages of the memorandum-book until he came to the clause specifying the days on which certain private boxes were to be reserved for the free use of the president of the republic, the ministers and so on. At the end of this clause, a line had been added, also in red ink: