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"Then your father was murdered--eh?" exclaimed the elder man

"Most certainly he was And that woman is aware of the whole circumstances and of the identity of the assassin"

"How do you know that?"

"By a letter I afterwards opened--one that had been addressed to him at Woodthorpe in his absence It was anony him to 'beware of that woman you know--Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo' It bore the French stamp and the postmark of Tours"

"I never knew all this," Brock said "You are quite right, Hugh! The whole affair is a tangled mystery But the first point we ate is--who is Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo?"