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"Monsieur!" he cried, "I do not knohata feords you used this "

Hanaud turned upon his heel His face was drawn and grey and his

eyes blazed

"My friend, I also a those words," he said Thus the

twoone another, eye to eye, with awe and

fear in both their faces

Ricardo ondering to ords they both referred, when the

sound of wheels broke in upon the silence The effect upon Hanaud

was ical He thrust his hands in his pockets

"Helene Vauquier's cab," he said lightly He drew out his

cigarette-case and lighted a cigarette

"Let us see that poor woman safely off It is a closed cab I

hope"

It was a closed landau It drove past the open door of the salon

to the front door of the house In Hanaud's wake they all went out

into the hall The nurse ca She placed it in the cab and waited in the

doorway

"Perhaps Helene Vauquier has fainted," she said anxiously: "she

does not coularly swift step forward and stopped her

"Why should you think that?" he asked, with a queer sently upstairs "See," he

continued, "you are wrong: she is co"

Ricardo was puzzled It had seeently was nearer than Helene Vauquier's door It seemed