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"None are needed," he said lightly, "Madame will forgive me if I make a suggestion-”

"But cortainly"

Il Lento looked away, above her fantastically dressed hend, above

"You," he spluttered. "You eat of my food and have of my hos- pitality and you dishonour me. Free food and drink are not

in charge. The the tiled roof of the hotel, where But she had nothing to say. thundered, "You dirty lout of a gives Madame enough-so you must steal--"

"M'sieur" her voice was "like a He could see through her tinsel dishwasher. You go back to gentlemen at the police station the stars' solemn procesional went might be bored with a trifling on, golden dots in the black-blue dend leaf pattering to the ground. pretence, her cheapness, her petty your sink this very instant."

Il Lento shook his head.

theft story, I propose to divert: Southern sky., "But I will not listen. It is for, dishonesties, her pathetic make-

"My excuses, Monsieur. If he them in a better way, Monsieur "Madame will leave Le Petit you to be silent. You are not clever believe... She had claimed to

2 enough, my little one. Did you not be his brother's widow, had trad- would be good enough to send the Girard could not show Govern- Chat and Marseilles," he spoice go to M. Lupin's room? Just a few ed on the myth in the slimy back- others away. I might have some- ment excise tax receipts for the slowly as though his very thoughts hours ago? And all your own waters of Marseilles. Yet these thing to say to him. Madame can rum, and I gather that Monsieur were between heaven and earth. le Patron goes shares with him." "Madame will sing and dance, and things are packed, my pretty? M. things suddenly became unimpor- remain-out of hearing—”

Fists clenched, le Patron shout- may she have good luck whore, Lupins swears he is shart of tant. She was a woman, bullied The tone of his voice made Le

ed:

ever she goes. But she will wipe several hundred francs. If you by a brute of a man, 11 Lento. Patron gruffly accede to the sug-

"You will leave my hotel this out her tragic antecedents, she will wished to steal, head of a sheep, moved away from the shadows. gestion. why must you go and spill your "Monsieur," he spoke coldly, Madame Lucille slunk farther instant, you and this woman. If cease trading on a great name.

Her breath came and went. Her from the door. II Lento I hear any more of that rum talk powder all over his room? I give "you must leave Madame alone. away

abroad, I shall have your neck hand clung to his rough sleeve, you of my hospitality . A What proof have you of her guilt? spoke in a lowered voice.

"I promise, M'sieur. But-but-- Duke's widow.. Dishonour... The maids may have invented the "I come here from Monsieur wrung, my friend—-”

Le Patron- a I Lento shrugged. What Le Patron's rage nearly story of the powder. Madame has Girard. Monsieur Girard

of Monsieur. Monsieur "It has served its purpose, Mon- choked him.

honoured me with her presence. friend

afternoon." Girard talks in his cups. He gets sieur." Madame Lucille said nothing. since the early

cheaply-ás Monsieur Le Patron swung He stopped. The men guffawed rum very

round and The maids sniggered. M. Lupin

slammed the door. The giant stood Madame Lucille caught knows-" cleared his throat. But I Lento loudly.

Le Patron hissed-

still, Then a hand touched his looked at Madame Lucillo and saw her breath. Il Lento would not

"You threaten me, canaille?" sleeve, and he remembered Ma- two huge tears tremble on the look at her.

"That

I do not, Monsieur. I damo Lucille with an effort. thickly painted cheeks. If she had

"M'sieur," she was most merely suggest that I go with

sobbing. said as much as one word, Il "Of a joke this is the Lento knew she would have lied. stupid. My maids lie-never," he Monsieur to the police when he "This is of the most chivalrous. I piled coldly.

9000

Le Patron clenched his fists.

is

"Was right about the theft," Il Lento said indifferently. "This did not matter to me--"

She gave a tiny cry. "Yet M'sieur defended me-" He moved up the steps of the

porch.

"Madame is a woman," he re-

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