 Citizen Chauvelin is on the case and soon realises that he cannot simply arrest Malzieu, so comes up with a plan to discredit the actor and knock him off his popular pedestal.One day in late September he is visited by a lawyer who tell him that his estranged cousin Désiré Malzieu has died leaving the old family château of Maljovins to Fernand on condition that he lives there.Fernand has always loved the château and rushes to tell his fianceé Céleste at her house in St. Brieuc, where he meets Sir Percy, who is obviously an old friend.