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disgrace. just removal. extinction"
Scarcely had De S%artines finished
than a rva entered and approached
De Richelieu.
Monsieur Rare to see YOU. mon
sieur."
"Rare to see me! Why, he must have
come all the way from Versailles. One
moment, my dear De Sartines."
He left the room and in the library
found Raffe.
Rafe was white as death.
Monsieur" cried he, when his mas
ter had closed the door, "a terrible
thing has happened"
Yes. Speak! What is it?"
Your bureau has been tempered
WITH
sMonsieur, when you left me your
keys this morning, with instructions to
go over the Tarnier affair. l went to
your bureau. The top right hand draw
er, when I tried to unlock 1t. proved
tosbe unlocked. The papers seemed to
be in order. but / remembered the Sc
cret panel inclosing the document you
know of concerning Monsieur de Sar-
tines. My God! Monsieur" cried Raffe,
suddenly collapsing into a chair. the
document is gone"
"Gone!" cried De Richelieu.
Gone; avs gone: and I know who
has taken it."
De Richelieu. greatly shaken by this
news, said nothing for a moment. He
remembered last night, and h bar
oness. and how she had locked him out
Of the room.
Well" he said at last. Speak. Who
has taken it?"
Monsieur de Lussac."
de Lussac!"
Yes, monsieur: he came on that WIS.,
it for no reason. He was alone in the
library. Oh, it was he, beyond any
manner of doubt. No one else had ac-
cess to the place."
on this. He felt sure in his heart that
the woman OF the night before wa
the culpfit. but his amour prOpre re.
volted at the thought. He preferred to
think hat he had been betrayed by his
kinsn1an rather thar that he had been
bered their, connection, and the truth.
that perhaps the pair of tkem a uni
ted to outwit him, began to dawn OF
his mind. An intense anger, amount
ing to hatred of this pair of lovers,
arose in his heart. But the conqueror
of Mahon was not a man to be CON-
Quered by his temper.
Return to Versailles said he to
RATE, land await my Instructions.
Place the whole household under sur
veill.nse. 0 are absolutely certain
that you nave made no mistake"
~ApSotuLeIy, LuOuS1cuT.
"Then 60"
The u returned to the reception
room where he had left De Sartines.
He vas undecided yet as to what
course he should take; he knew that
the situation as regarded De Sartines
was serious, but when the document
began to speak in strange hands it
would be time enough for DE Richelieu
to discover that he had been robbed of
1T. He was not 9 maj to make con-
fessions and explanations.
We'll" said Do Sartines, ..and what
had Monsieur Raffe to say?"
"Oh. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. matters
and hat reminds mA the urgency Of
my invitation to dejeuner had nothing
to do with DE Lussac."
with what, then7",s
why with a most charming Woman
who insists upon meeting you"
AHA! And who is she, this charm
ing woman?"
Il will give you 100 guessey and you
will be wrong every time.y
Then put me out Of my suspense
Madame la Baronne Sophie Linden
De Sartines stared for a moment;
then he broke into a fit Of laughter.
"oh, mon Dieu! you have invited me
to meet her! This will kill mel"
I'm what way?'
why, my dear due. / have decided
to arrest her. I would have arrested
her yesterday, only I had not a power
full enough case against her. This find
ing of the papers of the Society Of Midi
has changed all that. True, her name
is not mentioned in them, but she is
a friend and the mistress Of De Lus-
ac. n he wrote to- her concerning
them. I shall hold her in prison for q
Week, and then bundle her back ia
IfV1enna. withs q note to Monsieur Tai
4 liene of the Vienna police"
"COr0ieu!" said the due. land in
vited her to d~ejeuner!"
well, my dear DE Richelieu, you are
well out of h results Of that invi-
tatiOn. She is a most dangerous wo-
a Yesterday she tried to extract
1000 francs from me. She threatened
me, yes"
The Due de Richelieu was silent for
a moment. Then he turned to De Sar
tines.
"she must come herehall the same
WHAT
IT wish her impertinence punished.
She imposed herself on me; she pro-
posed the dejeuner as q means Of meet
Ing. you and some other people who
are coming and whom she hates; she
hoped to get o all under her tongue
and she used me AS her instrument
Grand idea! You have not Issued the
order of arrest YETI"
NO."
We'll. then, I present you with thj.
hotel for the day. o are the host
and when Madame Linden arrives, deal
with her as you pleaseAyt
M fol-" said DE Sartines grimly
that is not so bad" He pondered the
idea for a moment. You are in earn
est?"
absolutely replied the due. who
debarred from offering insult to the
woman whom he now hated in his owr
house. left perfectly certain that De
Sartines would not hesitate to do sc
in a borrowed one.
tines. II shall deal with this lady