“So you’re Jeremie?”
Etienne became red. He suddenly realized he had gone too far.
Etienne mumbled: “Heu, the question should be reconsidered…”
“You, stupid one, do not do that. Listen, you others, Hogmanay, it is me and me only, no one else is Hogmanay. Only me!”
“Not, it is me”, howled Alex.
“You too?” A horrible man who was blinking and dribbling like a toad stupefied.
“Shut up!”Jeremie ordered in vain.
One of the creatures whose diner suit was hanging in scraps and whose face was eaten up by vermines raised the hand to speak.
“There exists a means of deciding between you, oh yes, an excellent way…”
His rotter teeth were working loose and his mouth was horribly stinking. Everyone nodded vigorously. The creature spit beetles and the cockroaches on the hallcarpet. Etienne laid hi
