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Beneath the paper were some torn scraps. Kennedy picked them up
and pieced them together. "Dearest Blanche," they read. "I hope
you're feeling better after that dinner last night. Can you meet
me to-night? Write me immediately. Collie."
He placed the scraps carefully in his wallet. There was nothing
more to be done here apparently. As we passed down the corridor we
could hear a man apparently raving in good English and bad French.
It proved to be Millefleur--or Miller--and his raving was as
overdone as that of a third-rate actor. Madame was trying to calm
him.
"Henri, Henri, don't go on so," she was saying.
"A suicide--in the Novella. It will be in all the papers. We shall
be ruined. Oh--oh!"
"Here, can that sob stuff," broke in one of O'Connor's officers.
"You can tell it all when the chief takes you to headquarters,
see?"
Certainly the man made no very favourable impression by his
actions. There seemed to be much that was forced about them, that
was more incriminating than a stolid silence would have been.


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