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"And she makes money at the tables," said the American woman in the well-cut coat and skirt and small hat She came from Chelsea, Mass, and it was her first visit to what her pious father had always referred to as the plague spot of Europe

"Money!" exclaimed the old woman "Money! Dieu! She has losses, it is true, but oh!--what she wins! I only wish I had ten per cent of it I should then be rich Mine is a poor ga for so the whole afternoon You see, there is only one row of chairs all around So if a smart woman wants to play, some man always buys her a chair--and that is how I live Ah! ah Henfrey, who had travelled from London to the Riviera and identified the mysterious h the atrium and out into the afternoon sunshine

As they turned upon the broad gravelled terrace in front of the great white facade of the Casino aeraniums and mimosa, the sapphire Mediterranean stretched before them Below, beyond the railway line which is the one blemish to the picturesque scene, out upon the point in the sea the constant pop-pop showed that the tir-aux-pigeons was in progress; while up and down the terrace, enjoying the quiet silence of the inter sunshine with the blue hills of the Italian coast to the left, strolled a gay, irresponsible crowd--the cosmopolitans of the world: politicians, financiers, merchants, princes, authors, and artists--the crohich puts off its morals as easily as it discards its fur coats and its silk hats, and which lives only for gaiety and without thought of the h wearily "I'm sure that she's the same woman--absolutely certain!"

"You are quite confident you have made no mistake--eh?"

"Quite,ten thousand I only know that her surname is Ferad Her Christian name I do not know"

"And you suspect that she knows the secret of your father's death?"

"I'lishman "But it is a secret she will, I fear, never reveal, unless--unless I compel her"

"And how can you compel her?" asked the elder of the two rey "It is difficult to co," he added

"I h Henfrey fiercely, a look of determination in his eyes "That woman knows the true story of ad--I will! I mean it!"