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"Never, until to-night, m'sieur," was the reply "He called about twenty minutes after Mademoiselle's return from the Rooms"

"Has Mademoiselle quarrelled with anybody of late?"

"Not to e, m'sieur She is of a very quiet and even disposition"

"Is there anyone you knoho ier "The crime has not been committed with a e"

"I know of nobody," declared the highly respectable Italian, whose ed his shoulders and showed his palo, I believe?" queried the police official

"Yes,the summer she was at Deauville She also went to London for a brief tih eagerly, interrupting Ogier's interrogation

"Yes--once She had a furnished house on the Croo?" asked Henfrey

"Please allow me to rily

"But the question I ask is of greatest ih persisted

"I am here to discover the identity of Madeier asserted "And I will not brook your interference"

"Mademoiselle has been shot, and it is for you to discover who fired at her," snapped the young Englishht to put a question to this man as you have, that is"--he added with sarcas his mistress"

"Well, I certainly do not suspect that," the Frenchman said "But, to tell you candidly, your story of the affair strikes ht so! You suspect me--eh? Very well Where is the weapon?"

"Perhaps you have hidden it," suggested the other ly "We shall, no doubt, find it somewhere"

"I hope you will, and that will lead to the arrest of the guilty person," Hugh laughed Then he was about to put further questions to the man Cataldi when Doctor Leneveu entered the rooh breathlessly

The countenance of the fussy little doctor fell

"Monsieur," he said in a low earnest voice, "I ue Duponteil concurs with that view We have done our best, but neither of us entertain any hope that she will live!" Then turning to Ogier, the doctor exclai affair--especially in face of what is whispered concerning the unfortunate lady What do you make of it?"