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"You look out upon Mont Revard, I see I think M Wetherarden and the town is the better one," he said, and

went out of the room

At three o'clock Ricardo called in his car, which was an open car

of high power, at Hanaud's hotel, and the two men went to the

station They waited outside the exit while the passengers gave up

their tickets Aed, short woman, of a

plethoric tendency, attracted their notice She was neatly but

shabbily dressed in black; her gloves were darned, and she was

obviously in a hurry As she came out she asked a commissionaire: "How far is it to the Hotel Majestic?"

The man told her the hotel was at the very top of the town, and

the as steep

"But ested

Madame, however, was in too e She hailed a closed cab and drove off

inside it

"Now, if we go back in the car, we shall be all ready for her when

she arrives," said Hanaud

They passed the cab, indeed, a few yards up the steep hill which

leads fro at a walk

"She looks honest," said Hanaud, with a sigh of relief "She is

soeoise anxious to earn four thousand francs"