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She answered indifferently: "Very well; it is not necessary then to wait until Saturday; you can inform M. Lamaneur at once." He paused before her, and they gazed into one another's eyes as if by that mute and ardent interrogation they were trying to examine each other's consciences. In a low voice he murmured: "Come, confess your relations." She shrugged her shoulders. "You are absurd.
She said with a pensive and indifferent air: "It is possible that there is a will." When they entered the house, the footman handed Madeleine a letter. She opened it and offered it to her husband. "OFFICE OF M. LAMANEUR, Notary. 17 Rue des Vosges," "Madame: Kindly call at my office at a quarter past two o'clock Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, on business which concerns you."
Georges could not help muttering: "I suspected that." The notary continued: "I shall read you the document which is very brief." "'I, the undersigned, Paul Emile Cyprien Gontran, Count de Vaudrec, sound both in body and mind, here express my last wishes. As death might take me away at any moment, I wish to take the precaution of drawing up my will, to be deposited with M. Lamaneur."
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