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Rochefoucauld stopped and laid his hand on Tignonville's sleeve

"Thanks, dear lad," he said, "but I ahness's I may be detained an hour or nonville's face fell ludicrously "Well, no," he said "I--I

don't think I could wait so long--to-night"

"Then coood nature

"With pleasure," the other cried heartily, his relief evident

"Certainly With pleasure" And, nodding good night, they parted

While Rochefoucauld, with Nancay at his side and his gentleallery, the younger reat hall of the Caryatides, his face

radiant He for one was not sleepy