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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET [Looking up from the papers]

Here is something Spanish. Do you know Spanish?

Oh, yes. Let me see. He, he! Eugenie, this is from Madrid.

What?

From the police. Banishment—Ramera Gitana, who is called Eugenie Montez. Ha, ha, ha! I know! Because of that fight, wasn’t it?

I beg your pardon. [He bows to Emilia; then continues his examination of the papers] A passport. Elsa Muller, seventy-nine. Death certificate—of Ellian MacGregor, eighteen thirty-six. Look! Look! All jumbled up! Just wait, Madam, we will get to your own name. Ekaterina Myskin. Now, who is that?

Ekaterina Myskin was a Russian singer in the forties.

You know everything, man.

That’s extraordinary. All the initials are E. M.