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Mademoiselle da Toscana's chauffeur scratched his chin in perplexity In

frightening off his tenized that noould never be able

to find out who he was He should have played with him until mademoiselle

came out She would have known instantly That would have been the time

for the police To hide in the car! What the devil! Only a madman would

have offered such a proposition The lishue Bah! Perhaps he had heard

her sing that night, and had come away from the Opera, moonstruck It was

not an isolated case The fools were always pestering him, but no one had

ever offered so uncoht

not believe that part of the tale Madereeive him half of

whatever was offered him in the way of bribes It paid It was easier to

sell his loyalty to her for two hundred and fifty francs than to betray

her for five hundred She had yet to find hiht he

would be as frank as he had always been

But as this fellow in the Bavarian hat, who patrolled the sidewalk?

He had been watching him when the madman approached For an hour ortwenty feet beyond the li dark coat had a military cut about the

hips and shoulders Frohted

s Eh, well; there were other women in the world besides