ht Hugo's tea the next morning, 'I am informed that a

he circumstances he could not doubt its genuineness. What he doubted was its exact import. And what he objected to in it was its lack of information. He wished ardently to know whether Ravengar and Tudor, or either of them, had been wounded, and if so, by whose revolver; for he could not be certain that it was Camilla who had fired. An examination of the revolver which he and she had passed from hand to hand had shown two chambers undischarged. He wished ardently to know how she had contrived to settle her account with Tudor, and yet get away in Tudor's brougham, unless it was by a wile worthy of the diplomacy of a Queen Elizabeth. And he wished ardently to understand a hundred and one other things concerning Camilla, Tudor, and Ravengar, and the permutations and combinations of these three, which offered apparently insoluble problems to his brain. Nevertheless, there was one assuran

ed politely

ugo demanded; and Simon

oubtless some enthu

he little gallery by the men clea

who i

not been establi

little, Shawn?' Hugo asked, starin

with Albert, and his loose speech always drives m

t seen the

if it is a

pt by that door, can he?' pointing to a masked door, which was painted

, s

have got up by that

s,

were away from your po

followed, as far as I judged expedient-beg pardon, sir. The man must have slipped in during

,' said Hugo. 'You see ho

s,

is bath, 'talking of that chap up above, pl

ertoire, sir,' said S

répertoire!

, s

s have the Wedding Ma

leasure

ging the gold token, the bearer of which had the right to take whatever he chose from al

aid Hugo. 'But just run down firs

Simon returne

handcuffs, sir

e effrontery to add that we do not keep handcuffs. Shawn, are you not aware that the fundamental principle

ble us to supply them, sir,' Simon put in rapidly.

t familiar with the famous re

not,

c'est moi." Show

ed nearly two thousand large quarto pages, and above six thousand illustrations. Hugo turned solemnly to the exhaustive index, which alone occupied seventy pages of small type, and, running his

anbury this morning to procure some handcuffs, assorted sizes, a

isely

dome, and face the burglar without this nece