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Chapter XXV
THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH
The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room
with a deferential little gesture. “It’s all right,” he said, reassuringly to the inquirer
without. ‘The secret passage!’
It did not take long to find the mechanism of the candlesconce that opened the
door. She felt smaller and more adventurous even
than she had expected to feel. ' Avoid
taverns and bad company, and you may yet do well. "'It was all perfectly
legal?
"My word for it. It was necessary to think,
and think quickly. Gosse would have killed me, and
perhaps in the fight I might kill him. ‘Oh, Marthe,’ she groaned, using in her accustomed way the French version of
her nurse’s name, ‘that pig is going to monsieur le baron.
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