Hector hesitated. He would never give his name aloud in such a place as this. He gave the first name that occurred to him.

"Durand."

"Where are your papers?"

"What papers?"

"A passport, a receipt for lodgings, a license to hunt—"

"I haven't any."

"Go for them, or bring two well-known witnesses."

"But—"

"There is no 'but.' The next—"

Hector was provoked by the clerk's abrupt manner.