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"Ah! Then you had as in England"

Ogier was instantly alert

"What happenings?" he asked, for he recollected the big dossier and the suspicions extending over four or five years concerning the real identity and mode of life of the handsoh Henfrey was silent for a few s in London that--well, that I do not wish to recall"

Ogier again looked hiest, M'sieur Henfrey"--for Hugh had given hiest that you have been attracted by Mademoiselle as so many other men have been She seems to exercise a fatal influence upon sos about her Her success at the tables is constant and uncanny Even the Ads, and are often filled onder"

"True, m'sieur She keeps herself apart She is a mysterious person--the most remarkable in all the Principality We, at the Bureau, have heard all sorts of curious stories concerning her--once it was ru European sovereign Then we take all the reports with the proverbial grain of salt That Madee, as well as of great beauty, cannot be denied Therefore I tell you that I am intensely interested in this atteh said "I have a strong reason to be"

"Cannot you tell me that reason?" inquired the officer of the Surete, still looking at him very shrewdly "Why fence with me?"

Henfrey hesitated Then he replied: "It is a purely personal matter"

"And yet, you have said that you were not acquainted with Madeier suspiciously

"That is quite true The first ti, a few minutes before the attempt was made upon her life"

"Then your theory is that while you stood in conversation with her so the veranda and shot her--eh?"

"Yes"

Ogier sue, ordered him to search the roolish shot Mademoiselle, and the search was in order to try and discover the weapon

Meanwhile the brown-bearded officer called the Italian ave his name as Giulio Cataldi, and who stated that he had been in Mademoiselle Ferad's service a little over five years

"Have you ever seen this Englishh