Her part was simply spectacular, but it was the great attraction of the piece, consisting, as it did, of three POSES PLASTIQUES, each of which represented the same dumb and puissant fairy.

Then one fine morning amid his grand success, when Bordenave, who was mad after advertisement, kept firing the Parisian imagination with colossal posters, it became known that she must have started for Cairo the previous day.

She had simply had a few words with her manager.

Something had been said which did not please her; the whole thing was the caprice of a woman who is too rich to let herself be annoyed.

Besides, she had indulged an old infatuation, for she had long meditated visiting the Turks.
Months passed--she began to be forgotten.