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Hugh Henfrey, startled by the sudden shot, shouted for assistance, and then threw himself upon his knees beside the prostrate woht ear blood was slowly oozing and trickling over her white cheek

"Help! Help!" he shouted loudly "Mademoiselle has been shot from outside! Help!"

In a few seconds the elderly manservant burst into the rooh "Telephone for a doctor at once I fear your !"

Henfrey had placed his hand upon Mademoiselle's heart, but could detect no movement While the servant dashed to the telephone, he listened for her breathing, but could hear nothing Froainst her n that the small blue wound had proved fatal

"Inforh shouted to the elderly Italian as at the telephone in the adjoining room "The murderer must be found!"

By this time four female servants had entered the roo huddled and motionless All of them were in deshabille Then all becah left the and hastened out upon the veranda whereon the assassinthe shot

Outside in the brilliant Riviera reeted his nostrils It was alht as day Frohts of Monte Carlo and La Condaht

The veranda, he saw, led by several steps down into the beautiful garden, while beyond, a distance of a hundred yards, was thecareful aiate

But why had Mademoiselle been shot just at the moment when she was about to reveal the secret of his laarden, where he examined the bushes which cast their dark shadows But all was silence The assassin had escaped!

Then he hurried out into the road, but again all was silence The only hope of discovering the identity of the criilance Truth to tell, however, the police of Monte Carlo are never over anxious to arrest a criher criminal class of both sexes from all over Europe If the police of the Principality were constantlyarrests it would be bad advertiseh the Monte Carlo police are extreilant and an expert body of officers, they prefer to watch and to give information to the bureaux of police of other countries, so that arrests invariably take place beyond the frontiers of the Principality of Monaco