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way down the long corridor upstairs to a room Henri stumbled in and

fell across the bed He was almost ie that Jean had not coht arm was very stiff now, and pains

ran froers of his hand He

tried to exercise to lirew almost ith pain

At six o'clock, when Jean had not come, Henri resorted to ways that he

knew of and secured a car He had had some coffee by that ti under his breath a

strange ra of

Tipperary The driver looked at him curiously every now and then

It was ten o'clock when they reached La Panne Henri went at once to

the villa set high on a sand dune where the King's secretary lived The

house was dark, but in the library at the rear there was a light He

stu the paths beside the house, and reached at last, after

interminable miles, when the path soain fell away so that it see French doors, with their drawn curtains He

opened the door suddenly and thereby surprised the secretary, as a

his hand on a

heavy inkwell