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"A o the house almost directly opposite to us was taken

furnished for the su the last fortnight a young gentleman has come several times

in the afternoon to see her, and it is said in the street that he

is going to marry her But I cannot believe itman of perhaps thirty, with smooth, black hair He wears a

ether

captivating Mnol is five or six years older, I should

think--a tall woman, with red hair and a bold sort of coarse

beauty I was not attracted by her She seeto

nol"

And when he had come to that point Hanaud looked up with a start

"So the name was Adele," he whispered

"Yes," said Ricardo "Helene Vauquier spoke the truth"

Hanaud nodded with a queer sht she did"

"But she said Adele's hair was black," interposed Mr Ricardo

"Yes, there she didn't," said Hanaud drily, and his eyes dropped

again to the paper