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"Yes," replied Lemerre

Ricardo shivered with excitement The launch slid noiselessly into

the bank and lay hidden under its shadow Hanaud turned to his

associates with his finger to his lips Soleamed darkly

in his hand It was the barrel of his revolver Cautiously the men

disembarked and crept up the bank First came Lemerre, then

Hanaud; Ricardo followed him, and the fourth ht up the rear The other three

officers re under the shadow of the side wall of the garden, the

invaders stole towards the house When a bush rustled or a tree

whispered in the light wind, Ricardo's heart juh his ears heard a sound which

warned hiarden was a ragged place of un bushes

Behind each one Mr Ricardo seemed to feel an enemy Never had he

been in so strait a predicament He, the cultured host of

Grosvenor Square, was creeping along under a ith Continental

police to raid a sinister house by the Lake of

Geneva It was thrilling Fear and exciteo, but always he was sustained by the pride of the

"If only my friends could see

me now!" The ancient vanity was loud in his bosorouse-olf-links at North Berwick He alone of the malefactors to their doom by Leman's Lake