"But he's only got one arm," said Baugé all of a sudden. "How does he manage to play the French horn?"
He had kept his eyes on Lhomme. Pauline, who sometimes amused herself by playing on his stupidity, told him the cashier kept the instrument up by placing it against a wall. He thoroughly believed her, and thought it very ingenious. Then, when stricken with remorse, she explained to him in what way Lhomme had adapted to his stump a system of keys which he made use of as a hand, he shook his head, full of suspicion, declaring that they wouldn't make him swallow that.
"You are really too stupid!" she retorted, laughingly. "Never mind, I love you all the same."
They reached the Vincennes Station just in time for a train. Baugé paid; but Denise had previously declared that she wished to pay
