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"After Salon, yes It runs parallel with the road about two miles to the north--the railway between Arles and Aix-en-Provence"

"So if we get a breakdohich I hope we shall not, we are not far froht the heavy car tore along that open desolate road

As he sat there he thought of Dorise, wondering what had happened--and of Louise If he had obeyed his father's wishes and married the latter all the trouble would have been avoided, he thought Yet he loved Dorise--loved her with his whole soul

And she doubted him

Poor fellow! Hustled from pillar to post, and compelled to resort to every ruse in order to avoid arrest for a crime which he did not commit, yet about which he could not establish his innocence, he very often despaired At that moment he felt soht corner He felt confident after two hours of reflection that he was being driven over these roads that night in order that the police should gain tial formality for his arrest

Why had not the police of Marseilles arrested hi hiram to Mr Peters in London, or to Monsieur Gautier, the name by which The Sparrow told him he was known at his flat in the Rue des Petits Chaed to be able to communicate with his all-powerful friend, but there had been no opportunity

Suddenly the car began to pass through banks of ht over the low marshes around theThey had passed through the long dark streets of Salon, and were already five or six ht road which runs across the h St Martin-de-Crau into Arles

Of a sudden Hugh declared that hehis case handed one to the driver and took one himself Then he lit the man's, and afterwards his own

"It is cold here on the arette between his lips "ThisBut it is nearly always like this at night That is why nobody lives about here"

"Is it quite deserted?"

"Yes, except for a few shepherds, and they live up north at the foot of the hills"

For soh had suddenly become very watchful of the driver