Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
Chichi was stretched out on a sofa in the salon, pale, with an olive tinge, looking fixedly ahead of her as if she could see somebody in the empty air. She was not crying, but a slight palpitation was making her swollen eyes tremble spasmodically. "I want to see him," she was saying hoarsely. "I must see him!" The father conjectured that something terrible must have happened to Lacour's son.
Lacour's heart beat as he accompanied his guide, in the dark, up three pairs of stairs but before he had reached the head of the third flight, he heard the street door open and shut below, and knew that the sergeant had obeyed his directions, and that help was at hand in case his suspicions proved true. The mask opened the door of a room, and ushered in his guest.
But of all his stories there was none which was more notorious than that of the Koran and the Foreign Office messenger. And yet when Monsieur Otto's memoirs were written it was found that there really was some foundation for old Lacour's incredible statement. "You must know, monsieur," he would say, "that I left Egypt after Kleber's assassination.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking