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What do you intend to do?" "I would like to ask you to let my decorator take charge of the furnishing of your studio. To-morrow morning he can select from my storehouse whatever he thinks best " "And spoil my fun?" interrupted Gontram, frowning. "No, no, I cannot consent to that. Your decorator may be a very able man, but that isn't the question.
Spero bent over it, and, uttering a hollow cry, he took it in his arms and clasped the head with its long, black, streaming hair to his bosom. It was Jane Zild whom the vicomte held in his arms. Near her lay a revolver. Spero hurried with his burden to the street, and Gontram could hardly keep up with him.
Perhaps it might be better if she took part in the ball; she might hear something of interest to Gontram. "Well, if you desire it, I will appear, but under one condition," she said, coldly. "Name it." "I demand that you shall not present me to any one as your daughter." "But what shall I say?" "Anything else. And now go, I must make my toilet." "Carmen, I have one more favor to ask of you."
It was signed "Carmen," and ran as follows: "MONSIEUR GONTRAM Or may I say, my dear friend I would like to speak to you about a matter of some importance, and beg you to visit me this evening. I expect you at seven o'clock. Ring the garden bell. Be punctual. It concerns the fate of those you love. What did Carmen mean by the expression, "The fate of those you love?"
Gontram Sabran had refused to sell the painting, and the vicomte went personally to the painter. "Sir," said Gontram, politely, "you offered me twenty thousand francs for a picture which is worth far less; that I have nevertheless refused to sell the picture needs an explanation, and if you are willing, I shall be happy to give it to you."
"I think," remarked Gontram, "that the spring is under one of the small blue buttons with which the wall is decorated. Let us search." All three began to finger the numerous buttons, and finally Bobichel uttered a cry of triumph. He had turned a button aside and a little iron door noiselessly swung itself on its hinges.
What does that mean, and who was it that gave you this warning?" asked Gontram, in amazement. "I do not know. Springing up I ran in the direction whence the words came. I shoved the drapery aside, but could see no one." "No one?" repeated the painter, breathing more freely. "That looks like magic! Are you sure, Spero, that you didn't deceive yourself?"
This room has a secret exit, and through it Jane, the vicomte, and Gontram and his comrades have disappeared." "What are you going to do?" "Break down the house if necessary," said Coucou, beginning to trample upon the floor. "But you are ruining the carpet!" cried Mamma Caraman. The sound of the door-bell at this minute prevented Coucou from replying. In front of the door stood Carmen.
"Thank Heaven you have come, mademoiselle." "You haven't found Gontram yet?" "No." "Monsieur Gontram and his comrades are in subterranean chambers in this house." "Knock at the walls, Coucou," said Madame Caraman, "and then we can wait for an answer." Coucou knocked three times with a hammer against the wall. At the end of the second knock came back in answer twenty-five.
In the meantime the two friends reached the Arc de Triomphe and walked up and down the woods. "Perhaps you are right," said Gontram, answering the vicomte's last question. "I know very little of Monsieur de Larsagny, and yet I could swear that there are some dark spots in his past." At this moment a shot sounded in the still night, and the friends stood still and looked at each other in surprise.
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