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Updated: May 27, 2025
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.
"That's excellent! I I feared that she was dead!" "No. She still breathes," the doctor replied. "But, tell me exactly what has occurred. First, however, we will get them to remove her upstairs. I will telephone to my colleague Duponteil, and we will endeavour to extract the bullet." "But will she recover, doctor?" asked Hugh eagerly in French. "What do you think?"
So, after speaking to Duponteil, he also spoke to the sister at the hospital, asking her to send up two nurses immediately to the Villa Amette. In the meantime Inspector Ogier was closely questioning the young Englishman. Like everyone in Monte Carlo he knew the mysterious Mademoiselle by sight. More than once the suspicions of the police had been aroused against her.
But the worst of it is, Walter, that the doctors hold out no hope of Mademoiselle's recovery. I saw Duponteil half an hour ago, and he told me that he could give me no encouraging information. The bullet has been extracted, but she is hovering between life and death.
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.
While the servants carried their unconscious mistress tenderly upstairs, the fussy little doctor went to the telephone to call Doctor Duponteil, the principal surgeon of Monaco. He had hesitated whether to take the victim to the hospital, but had decided that the operation could be done just as effectively upstairs.
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