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"They are both out at Monte Carlo, Yvonne says And Henfrey is with Dorise daily," re Henfrey should learn the secret of the old fellow's end," said Benton "But I don't see how the truth of the--well, rather ugly affair can ever come out, except by an indiscretion by one or other of us"

"And that is scarcely likely, Charles, is it?" his hostess laughed as she pushed across to hiarettes and then reclined lazily a her cushions

"No It would certainly be a very sensational affair if the newspapers got hold of the facts,Fortunately Louise, in her girlish innocence, knows nothing Old Henfrey left his money to his son upon certain conditions, one of which is that Hugh shall e must, at all hazards, take place After that, we care for nothing"

The handsoarette between her well-e look as she reflected She was far too clever to express any off-hand opinion She had outwitted the police of Paris, Brussels, and Rome in turn Her whole career had been a crih respectability--while the funds to support it had lasted And upon her hands had been placed Louise Lambert, the child Charles Benton had adopted ten years before

"We shall have to exercise a good deal of discretion and caution in regard to Louise," she declared "The affair is not at all so plain sailing as I at first believed"

"No It is a serious contretereed her well-dressed visitor "The young American was a fool, of course, but I think--"

"Paris was flooded by rich young ht the Boche and to spend their money like water when on leave in Paris Frank was only one of them"

Benton was silent The affair was a distinctly unsavoury one Frank van Geen, the son of the Dutch-Ao, had, by reason of his association with Molly, found himself the poorer by nearly a quarter of a million francs, and his body had been found in the Seine between the Pont d'Auteuil and the Ile St Gerly disclosures were made, but already the lady of the Rue Racine and her supposed niece had left Paris; and though the affair was one of suicide, the police raised a hue and cry, and the frontiers had been watched, but the pair had disappeared