apprehensively at the pale, still fac

although it looks so much like it.

ior, indignantly, when she was interrup

work. Wait until I

t without reserve. All three

with you regarding my intentions. I am rich, and have none to oppose

s enough to say that it was

pupil, train and educate her in a manner befitti

d, instantly; and he nearly

arge amount into her hand. "Now I will not intrude upon you longer at this unseem

urried away, eager to learn how Van Zandt had fared in his valiant effort at ho

Esplanade

the quiet, almost deserted streets, and in a short space

and the clear moonlight shone upon the bare pavement-bare, where but a

ndecision. He felt intuitively that behind its dark portals was the knowledge he desi

ate hour. He again left the carriage, and in crossing the pavement

is hands with the dark

" he exclaimed, and rang a furi

e driver from his box; but apparently Mme. Lorraine was a very sound s

quite satisfied in his own mind that Mme. Lorraine had

, and met the startling information that

ated, in alarm; then, fiercely: "I will seek out Remond

urther; but here he met the puzzling information that Remond had left an hour

of the waning moon, Carmon

y at the bottom of al

o give up the quest until day; so was driven to his own lodgings in the pal

ed, and a heavy stupor stole over him, binding his faculties in a lethargic slumbe