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Yvonne Ferad had slowly struggled back to health, but the injury to the brain had, alas! seriously upset the balance of her reatest French specialists upon mental diseases had seen her and expressed little hope of her ever regaining her reason

It was a sad affair which the police of Monaco had, by dint ofof many untruths, successfully kept out of the newspapers

The evening after Hugh's disappearance, Monsieur Ogier had called upon Dorise Ransco away at the Roo-rooms of the hotel the official of police closely questioned the girl, but she, of course ier was annoyed at being unable to obtain the slightest infore against her lover and then left the hotel in undisguised anger

Lady Ranscoh secretly she was very glad She questioned Brock, but he, on his part, expressed himself very much puzzled A week later, however, Walter returned to London, and on the following night Lady Ranscone, and duly arrived horew h What was the truth? She had written to Brussels three tiht be already under arrest, for aught she knew Besides, she could not rid herself of the recollection of the white cavalier, that mysterious masker who had told her of her lover's escape

In this state of keen anxiety and overstrung nerves she was compelled to meet almost daily, and be civil to, her e Sherrard

Lady Ransco theher surprise at Hugh's unforgivable behaviour

"He simply disappeared, and nobody has heard a word of him since!" she remarked one day as they sat at breakfast "I' I've never liked him, Dorise"

"You don't like hiirl bitterly "If he were rich and entertained you, you would call hi? What's the good of life without reat contractor

"Everyone can't be rich," the girl averred sie people by their pockets"

"Well, has Hugh written to you?" snapped her mother