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I listened at the door, trying to discover a sound, a

The silence of the country seemed to be continued here I opened the

door and entered All the curtains were her-room and went toward the bed-roo at the curtain cord and drew it violently The

curtain opened, a faint light made its way in I rushed to the bed It

was empty

I opened the doors one after another I visited every room No one It

was enough to drive one -room, opened the , and called Prudence

several times Mme Duvernoy'sremained closed

I went downstairs to the porter and asked hi the day

"Yes," answered the man; "with Mme Duvernoy"

"She left no word for me?"

"No"

"Do you knohat they did afterward?"

"They went away in a carriage"

"What sort of a carriage?"

"A private carriage"

What could it all , sir?" asked the porter, when he had opened to me

"To Mme Duvernoy's"

"She has not come back"