“They repose,” said he, sombrely, and made a hopeless gesture with his hand. “Both of them.”
CHAPTER XI.
At this moment Simeon walked into the cabinet with a tray upon which stood two goblets of a bubbling golden wine and lay a large visiting card.
“May I ask which of you here might be Mister Gavrila Petrovich Yarchenko?” he said, looking over all those sitting.
“I,” responded Yarchenko.
“If youse please. The actor gent sent this.”
Yarchenko took the visiting card and read aloud:
Eumenii Poluectovich
EGMONT—LAVRETZKI
Dramatic Artist of Metropolitan Theatres
“It’s remarkable,” said Volodya Pavlov, “that all the Russian Garricks bear such queer names, on the style of Chrysantov, Thetisov, Mamontov and Epimhakov.”
“And besides that, the best known of them must needs either speak thickly, or lisp, or stammer,” added the reporter.