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"Yes! I'm not ood-looking young Englishman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at one of the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, the first on the right on entering the rooamblers as "The Suicide's Table"

"Are you quite certain?" asked his friend

"Positive I should know her again anywhere"

"She's very handso!"

"Yes But let's get away She er man anxiously "Ah! If I could only induce her to disclose what she knows about ht clear up the mystery"

"I'm afraid, if all we hear is true about her, Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo will never do that," was the other's reply as theysaloon towards the trente-et-quarante roo in their strident,players to stake their counters of cent-sous, their louis, or their hundred or five hundred franc notes upon the spin of the red and black wheel It was the ht of the Riviera season, the fetes of Mi-Care That afternoon the roo was laden with the combined odours of perspiration and perfume

Around each table were crowds four or five deep behind those fortunate enough to obtain seats, all eager and anxious to try their fortune upon the rouge or noir, or upon one of the thirty-six numbers, the columns, or the transversales There was but little chatter The hundreds of well-dressed idlers escaping the winter were too intent upon the game But above the click of the plaques, blue and red of different sizes, as they were raked into the bank by the croupiers, and the clatter of counters as the lucky players were paid with deft hands, there rose ever and anon: "Messieurs! Faites vos jeux!"

Here English duchesses rubbed shoulders with the land were good churchhed eously attired cocottes froe Upon that wide polished floor of the splendidly decorated Rooilt ornamentation, the world and the half-world were upon equal footing

Into that stifling atmosphere--for the Administration of the Bains de Mer of Monaco seelorious afternoon sunlight struggled through the curtained hile over each table, in addition to the electric light, oil-lahastly illuer countenances of the players Most of those who go to Monte Carlo wonder at the antiquated mode of illumination It is, however, in consequence of an atteht, when soht et from the bank