'Why has my baggage been seized!'
'You will learn in good time. Sapristi.'
'Why not now?'
'Well, it contained what it should not.'
'My baggage?'
'Yes.'
'It was duly inspected by the douanier at the quay and passed.'
'Yes; your portmanteau, as he is here ready to affirm,' replied the Préfet; 'but not your roll of railway rugs?'
'And what the deuce was in it?'
'That which you were too cunning to have in your portmanteau.'