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You had better ask your friends what they wish done with him." There followed a few minutes of somewhat curious silence. At the first sound of the voice of the man who had made so startling an appearance in their midst, a cry, only half suppressed, had broken from Madame de Melbain's lips.
There was no response in his manner to the courtesy with which the Baron had sought to introduce himself. "You have nothing to thank me for," he said shortly. "My name would be quite unknown to you, and I am leaving this part of the world at once. Permit me to wish you good evening!" He had already turned on his heel when Madame de Melbain's voice arrested him.
The significance of his brief appearance upon the lawn was a thing of which he had not the least idea. Yet after his departure, the strain to a certain extent had passed away. Only Madame de Melbain's eyes seemed scarcely to leave the face of the man who stood still by her chair. "Alive!" she murmured, grasping his hand in hers. "You alive!" Louise had taken his other hand.
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