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flask down upon the table Her avarice had got the better of her

hatred She roughly plucked the earrings out of the girl's ears

She hid them quickly in the bosom of her dress with her eye upon

the door She did not see a drop of blood gather on the lobe of

Celia's ear and fall into the cushion on which her face was

pressed She had hardly hidden thenol burst into the room

"What is the matter?" asked Vauquier

"The safe's e," she cried

"Everything is in the safe," Helene insisted

"No"

The to

on the settee, heard all the quiet of the house change to noise

and confusion It was as though a tornado raged in the room

overhead Furniture was tossed about and over the room, feet

stamped and ran, locks were sed Then it ceased, and she heard the

accoht of the

noise they hing hysterically, like adark overcoat when he entered the house; now he

carried the coat over his arm He was in a dinner-jacket, and his

black clothes were dusty and disordered