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Updated: May 13, 2025
"There must be a third exit," said Fanfaro; "both the vicomte and Jane have disappeared without the footman's knowing anything about it. We can begin our work now, and may God grant that we find some trail." Thereupon Fanfaro, Gontram, and Bobichel went to the room Jane had occupied. Gontram walked in advance, and soon all three stood in the beautifully furnished apartment.
Her ash-blond hair fell in a thousand locks over a dazzling white forehead, and the small, finely formed mouth understood how to talk. Hanging to Gontram's arm, Carmen walked up and down the studio. She sometimes directed her dark-blue eyes at the young painter, and who could scold Gontram if he loved to look in those magnificent stars?
Many a rich banker would have given a great deal if he could have won some of the artists who assembled here for his private soirées, for the first stars of the opera, the drama and literature had accepted the invitation. Rachel had offered to do the honors; Emma Bouges, a sculptress, assisted her, and Gontram was satisfied.
But I have put her features on canvas as they are engraved in my memory, and you can understand now why I do not wish to sell the picture." "Monsieur Sabran," said Spero when the painter had finished, "your little romance is interesting, and I am now ready to pay fifty thousand francs for the picture." Gontram looked pityingly at the vicomte and dryly replied: "I stick to my refusal."
Let us go the same way, and perhaps we may find out where the vicomte is." "So be it," cried Fanfaro, "and then, in Heaven's name, forward!" Gontram had in the meanwhile sent a note with Coucou to Carmen. Each one of the three carried a three-armed bronze lamp, and the light they gave forth illuminated the marble steps of a staircase. Gontram was the first to reach the top stair.
"What was that?" cried Spero. "A shot, and, as I fear, a crime," said Gontram, softly. The young men hurried in the direction from which the shot came, and were soon in a small pathway which was lighted up by the faint gleam of the moon. On the ground a motionless form lay.
Linda lingered for a moment at her mother's ruffled pink shoulders; then, with a sigh, she turned to the reception-room of their small suite at the Hotel Gontram. It was a somber chamber furnished in red plush, with a complication of shades and gray-white net curtains at long windows and a deep green carpet.
"The noise comes from the right side," said Coucou, who had been listening; "let us hurry to Gontram and Fanfaro, and call their attention to it." Mamma Caraman nodded, and they both went to Jane's room. It was empty! "This is getting worse and worse," cried Coucou, anxiously. "Do you know what I think?
"Confound the slow pokes," cried the painter at length, after the two young men had been walking up and down for over an hour; "I will go directly to the point." Spero looked up in amazement. Buried in thought, he believed his friend had spoken to him, and so he said confusedly: "Excuse me, Gontram, I was thinking of something else and didn't catch your meaning."
Fanfaro, Gontram, and a former clown determined to discover the vic.'s whereabout, and thanks to their curiosity they have fallen into a trap in the M. C. palace. The little one is in the house in Courb., and the son of the man against whom we have sworn eternal hate will come too late. Carmen at once understood the meaning of these lines.
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