. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . his coat and then under his pillow. He even scucceededin turning himself half-way toward the wall and back a sign, which was at once understood, some one placedanother pillow under his head. Then, in a broken, hissing voice,he uttered a few words: I am the assassin, he said. Writeit down, I will sign it: it will please Albert. I owe him thatat least. While they were writing, he drew Juliettes head close tohis lips. My fortune is beneath the pillow, he give it all to you. A flow of blood rose to his mouth; andthey all thought him
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . his coat and then under his pillow. He even scucceededin turning himself half-way toward the wall and back a sign, which was at once understood, some one placedanother pillow under his head. Then, in a broken, hissing voice,he uttered a few words: I am the assassin, he said. Writeit down, I will sign it: it will please Albert. I owe him thatat least. While they were writing, he drew Juliettes head close tohis lips. My fortune is beneath the pillow, he give it all to you. A flow of blood rose to his mouth; andthey all thought him dead. But he still had strength enoughto sign his confession and to say jestingly to M. Tabaret: Ah,ha, my friend, so you go in for the detective business, do you!It must be great fun to trap ones friends in person! Ah, Ihave had a fine game; but with three women in the play I wassure to lose. The death struggle commenced, and, when the doctor ar-rived, he could only announce the decease of M. Noel Gerdy,barrister. THE LEROUGE AFFAIR jul. COME months later, one evening, at old Mademoiselle deGoellos house, the Marquise dArlange, looking ten yearsyounger than when we saw her last, was giving her dowagerfriends an account of the wedding of her granddaughter Claire,who had just married the Yieomte Albert de Commarin. Thewedding, said she. took place on our estate in Normandy,without any flourish of trumpets. My son-in-law wished it;for which I think he is greatly to blame. The scandal raisedby the mistake of which he had been the victim, called for abrilliant wedding. That was my opinion, and I did not con-ceal it. But the boy is as stubborn as his father, which issaying a good deal; he persisted in his obstinacy. And my im-pudent granddaughter, obeying beforehand her future husband,also sided against me. It is, however, of no consequence; Idefy any one to find to-day a single individual with courageenough to confess that he ever for an instant doubted Albertsinnocence. I have le
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