D, a thoroughfare which always diverted and amused him. It was such a st

[Labeau]

 and their costumes shabby, but they did not mind, for whereas he got a
hundred a week, they each got a hundred a day. Three junior performers
received ten guineas a day apiece: one of them held a watching brief for
the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey, who, being members of a Christian
fraternity, were pained and horrified by the defendants' implication
that they had given interment to a valet, and who were determined to
resist exhumation at all hazards. The supers in the drama, whose
business it was to whisper to each other and to the players, consisted
of solicitors, solicitors' clerks, and experts; their combined
emoluments worked out at the rate of a hundred and fifty pounds a day.
Twelve excellent men in the jury-box received between them about as much
as would have kept a K.C. alive for five minutes. The total expenses of
production thus amounted to something like six or seven hundred pounds a
day. The preliminary expenses had run into several thousands. The
enterprise could have been made remunerative by hiring for it Convent
Garden Theatre and selling stalls as for Tettrazzini and Caruso, but in
the absurd auditorium chosen, crammed though it was to the perilous
doors, the loss was necessarily terrific. Fortunately the affair was
subsidized; not merely by the State, but also by those two wealthy
capitalists, Whitney C. Witt and Mr. Oxford; and therefore the
management were in a position to ignore paltry financial 
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