will be on the way and we will see from his face what has happened.
CADEROUSSE
Let’s go! But you are paying?
DANGLARS
Certainly! Are you coming?
CADEROUSSE
Here I am!
(A stranger enters.)
STRANGER
Pardon, gentlemen.
CADEROUSSE
What is it?
DANGLARS
What do you want?
STRANGER
Is this where the Captain of the Pharaoh lives?
DANGLARS
The mate, you mean!
STRANGER
Captain or mate, so be it! The one who was in charge of the ship during the voyage.
DANGLARS
Yes, sir, this is where he lives.
CADEROUSSE
Or rather his father.
STRANGER
Never mind! And he is not home?
CADEROUSSE
He just went out.
DANGLARS
Is it something in which one can act for him?
STRANGER
I want to ask some information from him.
DANGLARS
About what?
STRANGER
On the course the ship took.
DANGLARS
I can tell you that.
STRANGER
You?
DANGLARS
Yes—I am comptroller aboard the Pharaoh. What information do you wish?
STRANGER
Ah! Very simple. I wanted to know if, in its course, the boat had stopped at Porto Ferraio.
DANGLARS
Yes, sir.
STRANGER
Thanks.
DANGLARS
Well?
STRANGER
What?
DANGLARS
That’s all you wish to know?
STRANGER
Yes.
DANGLARS
What more do you want?
STRANGER
I want nothing else. Good day, gentlemen.
(The stranger leaves.)
CADEROUSSE
Well, there’s a character.
DANGLARS
There’s something strange in all this, Caderousse. Come, come.
CADEROUSSE
Wait a while.
DANGLARS
The old caitiff didn’t he tell me to close his door? As if he had something to lose from this shack—there!
(They leave.)
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