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"Mademoiselle Yvonne Ferad rented a furnished house at Hove, near Brighton, in June, 1918. Afterwards moved to Worthing and to Exeter, and later took a house in the Cromwell Road, London, in 1919. She was accompanied by an Italian manservant named Cataldi. Her conduct was suspicious, though she was undoubtedly possessed of considerable means.
Just before noon Hugh went to the telephone in the hotel and inquired of Cataldi the progress of his mistress. "She is just the same, m'sieur," came the voice in broken English. "Santa Madonna! How terrible it all is! Doctor Leneveu has left, and Doctor Duponteil is now here." "Have the police been again?" "No, m'sieur. Nobody has been," was the reply.
He was much excited when he found out that Madame Waddington was the Mary King he had known so well in Rome. He had with him an English priest, whose name, curiously enough, was English. They appeared about tea-time and were quite charming, Cataldi just as fat and cheerful and talkative as I remembered him in the old days in Rome.
Giulio Cataldi turned in pretence of rearranging a chair, but in reality to avert his face from the young man's gaze a fact which Hugh did not fail to notice. Had he really told the truth when he declared that he could not recollect his father calling? "How long were you in London with Mademoiselle?" asked Henfrey. "About six weeks not longer."
Her remark was of considerable interest, inasmuch as old Cataldi had seemed to be most devoted to his mistress, and entirely trusted by her. "Do you know the circumstances?" asked Hugh. "Yes. But it is not our habit to speak of another's well, shortcomings," was her reply. "Surely, Mademoiselle should have been told the truth! Does not Il Passero know?" he asked.
Then he was about to put further questions to the man Cataldi when Doctor Leneveu entered the room. "How is she?" demanded Hugh breathlessly. The countenance of the fussy little doctor fell. "Monsieur," he said in a low earnest voice, "I much fear that Mademoiselle will not recover. My colleague Duponteil concurs with that view.
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