Hidalgos for six months, Goths for the rest." A half-hour later they were in the menagerie.

They sat near the doors where the performers entered.

For a long time they watched the performance with delight, clapping and calling bravo like boys.

Presently the famous dompteuse entered,--Mademoiselle Victorine,--passing just below Gaston.

He looked down, interested, at the supple, lithe creature making for the cages of lions in the amphitheatre.