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"But you said that Mademoiselle had enemies"

"So she has But I think irl "What was it that you asked her to reveal to you?"

"Well," he replied, after a brief hesitation, "o, and I have reason to believe that she knows the truth concerning the sad affair"

"Where did it happen?"

"My father was found in the earlyin a doorway in Albemarle Street, close to Piccadilly The only wound found was a slight scratch in the palht he was intoxicated, but the doctor, on being called, declared thatfroe's Hospital, but an hour later he died without recovering consciousness"

"And as your father's naely altered voice

"Henfrey"

"Henfrey!" gasped the girl, starting up at mention of the name "Henfrey! And--and are--you--his son?"

"Yes," replied Hugh "Why? You know about the affair, mademoiselle! Tell me all you know," he cried "I--the son of the dead ht to deirl hoarsely in a state of intense agitation "Monsieur Henfrey! And--and to think that I aasped "I--I----Let us return"

"But you shall tell h excitedly "You know it! You cannot deny that you know it!"

All, however, he could get from her were the words: "You--Monsieur Henfrey's son! Surely Il Passero does not know this!"