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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Secret Tomb, by Maurice Le Blanc
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 59072 ***
 
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-Title: The Secret Tomb
-
-Author: Maurice Le Blanc
-
-Release Date: March 16, 2019 [EBook #59072]
-
-Language: English
-
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@@ -62,7 +37,7 @@ Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
 
 CONTENTS
 
-      I THE CHÂTEAU DE ROBOREY
+      I THE CHÂTEAU DE ROBOREY
 
      II DOROTHY'S CIRCUS
 
@@ -108,7 +83,7 @@ THE SECRET TOMB
 
 CHAPTER I
 
-THE CHÂTEAU DE ROBOREY
+THE CHÂTEAU DE ROBOREY
 
 
 Under a sky heavy with stars and faintly brighter for a low-hanging
@@ -208,7 +183,7 @@ walls of rock and turning off abruptly. Dorothy stopped short. She had
 reached her goal.
 
 Facing her, on a pedestal of granite, cleanly cut down, and not more
-than a hundred feet in diameter, rose the main building of a château,
+than a hundred feet in diameter, rose the main building of a château,
 which though it lacked grandeur of style itself, yet drew from its
 position and the impressive nature of its construction an air of being
 a seigniorial residence. To the right and left the valley, narrowed to
@@ -221,7 +196,7 @@ ended at the foot of the almost vertical cliff of the granite pedestal.
 won't be long."
 
 She crouched down behind the enormous trunk of an uprooted tree and
-watched with unwinking eyes the line of demarcation between the château
+watched with unwinking eyes the line of demarcation between the château
 itself and its rocky base.
 
 A narrow shelf of rock lengthened this line, running below the windows
@@ -274,7 +249,7 @@ noise.
 
 A few minutes more slipped away. Then the inevitable event which
 Dorothy had at once desired and feared took place. The window of the
-château, through which Saint-Quentin had climbed the night before,
+château, through which Saint-Quentin had climbed the night before,
 opened; and there appeared a long body clad in a long black coat,
 its head covered with a high hat, which, even at that distance, were
 plainly shiny, dirty, and patched.
@@ -400,7 +375,7 @@ I went through them all. Nothing--that is to say, pictures and other
 things too big to carry away. Then I hid myself in a closet, from which
 I could see into a little sitting-room next to the prettiest bedroom.
 They danced till late; then came upstairs ... fashionable people.... I
-saw them through a peep-hole in the door ... the ladies décolletées,
+saw them through a peep-hole in the door ... the ladies décolletées,
 the gentlemen in evening dress.... At last one of the ladies went into
 the boudoir. She put her jewels into a jewel-box and the jewel-box into
 a small safe, saying out loud as she opened it the three letters of the
@@ -468,7 +443,7 @@ Overwhelmed, Saint-Quentin said imploringly:
 "Then we won't say anything more about it. I feel that you mean what
 you say. Take back these jewels. You can hide them in the big basket
 under the caravan. Next week you will send them back by post. It's the
-Château de Chagny, isn't it?"
+Château de Chagny, isn't it?"
 
 "Yes, and I saw the lady's name on one of her band-boxes. She's the
 Comtesse de Chagny."
@@ -582,16 +557,16 @@ directions on a sign-post.
 
 "Look," she repeated. "Chagny. A mile and a half."
 
-"Quite so. It's the village of our château of yesterday. Only to get to
+"Quite so. It's the village of our château of yesterday. Only to get to
 it we made a short cut through the woods."
 
-"Chagny. A mile and a half. Château de Roborey."
+"Chagny. A mile and a half. Château de Roborey."
 
 She appeared to be troubled and in a low voice she murmured again:
 
 "Roborey--Roborey."
 
-"Doubtless that's the proper name of the château," hazarded
+"Doubtless that's the proper name of the château," hazarded
 Saint-Quentin. "What difference can it make to you?"
 
 "None--none."
@@ -629,7 +604,7 @@ memory my poor father was obsessed at the time of his death. It was,
 apparently, more than an obsession ... it was a terror ... a dread.
 Why? I have never been able to find the explanation of it. So now you
 understand, Saint-Quentin, on seeing this name ... written there,
-staring me in the face ... on learning that there was a château of that
+staring me in the face ... on learning that there was a château of that
 name...."
 
 Saint-Quentin was frightened:
@@ -656,7 +631,7 @@ of the men of the Rifle-Range called to them:
 
 "Where to?" said Dorothy.
 
-"To the château. There's a village fête in the grounds. Shall I keep a
+"To the château. There's a village fête in the grounds. Shall I keep a
 pitch for you?"
 
 "Right. And thanks very much," replied the young girl.
@@ -679,9 +654,9 @@ rode on in front of the little party.
 
 "You see," said Dorothy, smiling, "they're not taking any notice of us."
 
-"No; but they're going to the château."
+"No; but they're going to the château."
 
-"Of course they are. There's a fête there; and two policemen have to be
+"Of course they are. There's a fête there; and two policemen have to be
 present."
 
 "Always supposing that they haven't discovered the disappearance of the
@@ -705,13 +680,13 @@ in the tall hat!"
 searched us they'd find the earrings."
 
 "Drop them in some bushes in the park when we get there. I'll tell the
-people of the château their fortunes; and thanks to me, the lady will
+people of the château their fortunes; and thanks to me, the lady will
 recover her earrings. Our fortunes are made."
 
 "But if by any chance----"
 
 "Rubbish! It would amuse me to go and see what is going on at the
-château which is named Roborey. So I'm going."
+château which is named Roborey. So I'm going."
 
 "Yes; but I'm afraid ... afraid for you as well."
 
@@ -729,16 +704,16 @@ CHAPTER II
 DOROTHY'S CIRCUS
 
 
-The château, situated at no great distance from Domfront, in the
+The château, situated at no great distance from Domfront, in the
 most rugged district of the picturesque department of the Orne, only
 received the name of Roborey in the course of the eighteenth century.
-Earlier it took its name of the Château de Chagny from the village
+Earlier it took its name of the Château de Chagny from the village
 which was grouped round it. The village green is in fact only a
-prolongation of the court-yard of the château. When the iron gates are
+prolongation of the court-yard of the château. When the iron gates are
 open the two form an esplanade, constructed over the ancient moat, from
 which one descends on the right and left by steep slopes. The inner
 court-yard, circular and enclosed by two battlemented walls which run
-to the buildings of the château, is adorned by a fine old fountain of
+to the buildings of the château, is adorned by a fine old fountain of
 dolphins and sirens and a sun-dial set up on a rockery in the worst
 taste.
 
@@ -757,7 +732,7 @@ coach.
 Already a dozen vehicles stood on the esplanade; and round them the
 showmen were busily setting up their canvas tents and swings and
 wooden horses, etc. Dorothy's Circus made no such preparations. Its
-directress went to the mayor's office to have her license viséd, while
+directress went to the mayor's office to have her license viséd, while
 Saint-Quentin unharnessed One-eyed Magpie, and the two musicians
 changed their profession and set about cooking the dinner.
 
@@ -768,7 +743,7 @@ villages. After the meal Saint-Quentin, Castor, and Pollux took a
 siesta beside the caravan. Dorothy again went off. She went down into
 the ravine, examined the slab over the excavation, went up out of
 it again, moved among the groups of peasants and strolled about the
-gardens, round the château, and everywhere else that one was allowed to
+gardens, round the château, and everywhere else that one was allowed to
 go.
 
 "Well, how's your search getting on?" said Saint-Quentin when she
@@ -776,11 +751,11 @@ returned to the caravan.
 
 She appeared thoughtful, and slowly she explained:
 
-"The château, which has been empty for a long while, belongs to the
+"The château, which has been empty for a long while, belongs to the
 family of Chagny-Roborey, of which the last representative, Count
 Octave, a man about forty, married, twelve years ago, a very rich
 woman. After the war the Count and Countess restored and modernized
-the château. Yesterday evening they had a house-warming to which
+the château. Yesterday evening they had a house-warming to which
 they invited a large party of guests who went away at the end of the
 evening. To-day they're having a kind of popular house-warming for the
 villagers."
@@ -841,7 +816,7 @@ rhododendrons between the gates and the coach-house."
 the little safe is in the boudoir of the Countess. I heard some of the
 maids talking; and nothing was said about any robbery. They'd have been
 full of it." She added: "Look! there are some of the people from the
-château in front of the shooting-gallery. Is it that pretty fair lady
+château in front of the shooting-gallery. Is it that pretty fair lady
 with the grand air?"
 
 "Yes. I recognize her."
@@ -857,7 +832,7 @@ husband, who, it appears, is not at all easy to get on with."
 out with importance. Look; he has taken a rifle. The two on either
 side of the Countess are distant relations. The tall one with the
 grizzled beard which runs up to his tortoise-shell spectacles, has
-been at the château a month. The other more sallow one, in a velveteen
+been at the château a month. The other more sallow one, in a velveteen
 shooting-coat and gaiters, arrived yesterday."
 
 "But they look as if they knew you, both of them."
@@ -871,7 +846,7 @@ Saint-Quentin made an indignant movement. She checked him at once.
 begins."
 
 The crowd was thronging round the back of the tent to watch the
-exploits of the owner of the château, whose skill was well known.
+exploits of the owner of the château, whose skill was well known.
 The dozen bullets which he fired made a ring round the center of the
 target; and there was a burst of applause.
 
@@ -940,7 +915,7 @@ gentlemen."
 From that moment Dorothy was all movement, liveliness, and gayety.
 Saint-Quentin had marked off a sufficiently large circle, in front of
 the door of the caravan, with a rope supported by stakes. Round this
-arena, in which chairs were reserved for the people of the château, the
+arena, in which chairs were reserved for the people of the château, the
 spectators were closely packed together on benches and flights of steps
 and on anything they could lay their hands on.
 
@@ -1091,7 +1066,7 @@ The bearded nobleman was beside himself. He loaded the young girl with
 extravagant compliments, looking at her the while in an uncommonly
 equivocal fashion. He introduced himself as "Maxime d'Estreicher,"
 introduced his companion as "Raoul Davernoie," and finally, on behalf
-of the Countess Octave, invited her to come to tea in the château.
+of the Countess Octave, invited her to come to tea in the château.
 
 "Alone?" she asked.
 
@@ -1100,7 +1075,7 @@ cousin is anxious to congratulate all your comrades. Will you come,
 mademoiselle?"
 
 Dorothy accepted. Just a moment to change her frock, and she would come
-to the château.
+to the château.
 
 "No, no; no toilet!" cried d'Estreicher. "Come as you are.... You look
 perfectly charming in that slightly scanty costume. How pretty you are
@@ -1174,14 +1149,14 @@ them."
 the caravan, and when the policemen approach, shoot them down."
 
 When she had made herself tidy, she took Saint-Quentin with her to the
-château and on the way made him repeat all the details of his nocturnal
+château and on the way made him repeat all the details of his nocturnal
 expedition. Behind them came Castor and Pollux, then the Captain,
 who dragged after him by a string a little toy cart loaded with tiny
 packages.
 
        *       *       *       *       *
 
-They entertained them in the large drawing-room of the château. The
+They entertained them in the large drawing-room of the château. The
 Countess, who indeed was, as Dorothy had said, an agreeable and amiable
 woman, and of a seductive prettiness, stuffed the children with
 dainties, and was wholly charming to the young girl. For her part,
@@ -1307,7 +1282,7 @@ The Countess spoke in a tone the carelessness of which was not perhaps
 absolutely sincere.
 
 "Well, then, mademoiselle, you spoke of forgotten dungeons and ancient
-stones and hidden treasures. Now, the Château de Roborey is several
+stones and hidden treasures. Now, the Château de Roborey is several
 centuries old. It has undoubtedly been the scene of adventures and
 dramas; and it would amuse us to know whether any of its inhabitants
 have by any chance left in some out-of-way corner one of these fabulous
@@ -1326,14 +1301,14 @@ The young girl broke in firmly:
 "You asked me the question, madame, as if you were giving way to a
 sudden curiosity, which did not rest, so to speak, on any real base.
 Now you know as well as I do that excavations have been made in the
-château."
+château."
 
 "That's very possible," said Count Octave. "But if they were, it must
 have been dozens of years ago, in the time of my father or grandfather."
 
 "There are recent excavations," Dorothy asserted.
 
-"But we have only been living in the château a month!"
+"But we have only been living in the château a month!"
 
 "It isn't a matter of a month, but of some days ... of some hours...."
 
@@ -1445,7 +1420,7 @@ With an air of challenge he repeated the Countess's question:
 Boldly Dorothy accepted the challenge.
 
 "Because the digging has gone on. There is in the ravine, under the
-walls of the château, among the stones which have fallen from the
+walls of the château, among the stones which have fallen from the
 cliff, an ancient slab, which certainly comes from some demolished
 structure. The word FORTUNA is to be deciphered on the base of
 it also. Let some one move that slab and they will discover a perfectly
@@ -1569,7 +1544,7 @@ mattock."
 "And which way does he go?"
 
 "He goes back up the ravine.... He comes to the iron gates of the
-château."
+château."
 
 "But they're locked."
 
@@ -1596,7 +1571,7 @@ The young girl broke off as if her attention were fixed on some one
 whose outline was blurred and lost in the shadow like a phantom.
 
 "I do not see him any longer," she said. "I can see nothing any
-longer.... Do I?... Ah yes, the steps of the château.... The door is
+longer.... Do I?... Ah yes, the steps of the château.... The door is
 shut quietly.... And then ... then the staircase.... A long corridor
 dimly lighted by small windows.... However I can distinguish some
 prints ... galloping horses ... sportsmen in red coats.... Ah! The
@@ -1620,7 +1595,7 @@ two doors. The man opens the two doors and reveals a safe."
 They were listening to Dorothy in a troubled silence, their faces
 twitching with emotion. How could any one have failed to believe the
 whole of the vision the young girl was describing, seeing that she
-had never been over the château, never crossed the threshold of this
+had never been over the château, never crossed the threshold of this
 boudoir, and that nevertheless she was describing things which must
 have been unknown to her.
 
@@ -1691,7 +1666,7 @@ D'Estreicher came a few steps further into the room and replied:
 
 "What is very amusing is to mix up into one and the same person the
 individual who was making an excavation under the slab of stone and
-this other individual who broke into the château last night and stole
+this other individual who broke into the château last night and stole
 the jewels."
 
 "That is to say?" asked the young girl.
@@ -1842,8 +1817,8 @@ more open with me."
 "I know what I'm doing, my lad."
 
 She was silent. She gazed through the open window near which Castor and
-Pollux were fighting. The noise of hurrying footsteps reëchoed about
-the château. People were calling out to one another. A servant ran
+Pollux were fighting. The noise of hurrying footsteps reëchoed about
+the château. People were calling out to one another. A servant ran
 across the court at full speed and shut the gates, leaving a small part
 of the crowd and three or four caravans, of which one was Dorothy's
 Circus, in the court-yard.
@@ -2233,7 +2208,7 @@ The inspector uttered a grunt of approval and continued his examination.
 "And Castor and Pollux."
 
 "I don't know where they come from. In 1918, during the German push
-towards Châlons, they were caught in the storm and picked up on a road
+towards Châlons, they were caught in the storm and picked up on a road
 by some French soldiers who gave them their nicknames. The shock was
 so great that they've lost all memory of the years before those days.
 Are they brothers? Were they acquaintances? Where are their families?
@@ -2299,7 +2274,7 @@ certificate of identity."
 
 "Made out by whom?"
 
-"By the Prefecture of Châlons, which is the chief city of the
+"By the Prefecture of Châlons, which is the chief city of the
 department in which I was born."
 
 "Show it to me."
@@ -2375,7 +2350,7 @@ over again, and read aloud in a tone of amazement:
 
 She finished the sentence for him, laughing:
 
-"Countess Marescot, Baroness de la Hêtraie, de Beaugreval, and other
+"Countess Marescot, Baroness de la Hêtraie, de Beaugreval, and other
 places."
 
 The Count seized the birth certificate with no less eagerness, and more
@@ -2455,7 +2430,7 @@ to indulge in a pomposity of diction employing only the most select
 vocabulary, striving to observe the rules of grammar, and fearless of
 subjunctives. He went on:
 
-"Mademoiselle, my father, François de Chagny, my grandfather,
+"Mademoiselle, my father, François de Chagny, my grandfather,
 Dominique de Chagny, and my great-grandfather, Gaspard de Chagny,
 lived their lives in the sure conviction that great wealth would
 be ... how shall I put it? ... would be offered to them, by reason of
@@ -2464,16 +2439,16 @@ advance that he would be the beneficiary. And each of them took the
 greater joy in the fact and indulged in a hope all the more agreeable
 because the Revolution had ruined the house of the Counts de Chagny
 from the roof-tree to the basement. On what was this conviction based?
-Neither François, nor Dominique, nor Gaspard de Chagny ever knew. It
+Neither François, nor Dominique, nor Gaspard de Chagny ever knew. It
 came from vague legends which described exactly neither the nature of
 the riches nor the epoch at which they would appear, but all of which
 had this in common that they evoked the name of Roborey. And these
-legends could not have gone very far back since this château, which
-was formerly called the Château de Chagny, only received the name of
+legends could not have gone very far back since this château, which
+was formerly called the Château de Chagny, only received the name of
 Chagny-Roborey in the reign of Louis XVI. Is it this designation which
 brought about the excavations that were made from time to time? It is
 extremely probable. At all events it is a fact that at the very moment
-the war broke out I had formed the resolution of restoring this Château
+the war broke out I had formed the resolution of restoring this Château
 de Roborey, which had become merely a shooting-box and definitely
 settling down in it, for all that, and I am not ashamed to say it, my
 recent marriage with Madame de Chagny had enabled me to wait for these
@@ -2565,7 +2540,7 @@ letter, she listened to it.
     '_In Robore Fortuna_.' Three words which may be thus translated:
     'Fortune is in the firm heart,'  but which, in view of the presence
     of this word 'Robore' and in spite of the difference in the
-    spelling, doubtless point to the Château de Roborey as the place in
+    spelling, doubtless point to the Château de Roborey as the place in
     which the fortune, of which our family legends tell will
     consequently be hidden.
 
@@ -2817,7 +2792,7 @@ used to it. Their health demands it."
 
 The Countess insisted: "But we can't allow it--really! You're going to
 stay with us at least some days; and from this evening you will dine
-and sleep at the château."
+and sleep at the château."
 
 "I beg you to excuse me, madame. I'm rather tired.... I want to be
 alone."
@@ -2854,7 +2829,7 @@ It was Raoul Davernoie who answered:
 
 "That's a point on which I can give you some information, mademoiselle.
 A fortnight ago I saw in the hands of my grandfather, with whom I live
-at Hillocks Manor in Vendée, a large gold coin. He was studying it;
+at Hillocks Manor in Vendée, a large gold coin. He was studying it;
 and he put it back in its case at once with the evident intention of
 hiding it from me."
 
@@ -2933,7 +2908,7 @@ The night was falling. The gates had been re-opened; and the
 showmen, having dismantled their shows, were departing. Dorothy found
 Saint-Quentin waiting for her in great anxiety and the three children
 lighting a fire. When the dinner-bell rang, she sent them to the
-château and remained alone to make her meal of the thick soup and some
+château and remained alone to make her meal of the thick soup and some
 fruit. In the evening, while waiting for them, she strolled through the
 night towards the parapet which looked down on to the ravine and rested
 her elbows on it.
@@ -2964,7 +2939,7 @@ He did not answer, but she discerned his dark shape nearer and repeated:
 
 "I only want to say a few words to you," he murmured.
 
-"To-morrow--at the château will be soon enough."
+"To-morrow--at the château will be soon enough."
 
 "No; what I have to say can only be heard by you and me; and I can
 assure you, mademoiselle, that you can listen to it without being
@@ -3030,7 +3005,7 @@ clear light of an electric torch.
 D'Estreicher took himself off. The ray followed him, cleverly guided.
 
 "Dirty little brat!" he growled. "I'll get you.... And you too, young
-woman! If to-morrow, at two o'clock, at the château, you do not come to
+woman! If to-morrow, at two o'clock, at the château, you do not come to
 heel, the box will be opened in the presence of the police. It's for
 you to choose."
 
@@ -3138,7 +3113,7 @@ called out. Dorothy gagged him with a napkin.
        *       *       *       *       *
 
 Next morning the Count and Countess de Chagny were taking their coffee
-with Raoul Davernoie in the big dining-room of the château when the
+with Raoul Davernoie in the big dining-room of the château when the
 porter came to inform them that at daybreak the directress of Dorothy's
 Circus had asked him to open the gates and that the caravan had
 departed. The directress had left a letter addressed to the Count de
@@ -3149,7 +3124,7 @@ letter ran as follows:
     he went on:
 
     "My cousin: I took an oath, and I keep it. The man who was making
-    excavations round the château and last night stole the earrings, is
+    excavations round the château and last night stole the earrings, is
     the same person who five years ago stole the medal and poisoned my
     father.
 
@@ -3175,7 +3150,7 @@ Count's confidential man.
 
 "What is it, Dominique?"
 
-"The château was broken into last night."
+"The château was broken into last night."
 
 "Impossible!" the Count declared in a positive tone. "The doors were
 all locked. Where did they break in?"
@@ -3229,7 +3204,7 @@ Every day, at the easy walk or slack trot of One-eyed Magpie, Dorothy's
 Circus moved on. In the afternoon they gave their performance; after it
 they strolled about those old towns of France, the picturesque charm
 of which appealed so strongly to the young girl. Domfront, Mortain,
-Avranches, Fougères, Vitré, feudal cities, girdled in places by their
+Avranches, Fougères, Vitré, feudal cities, girdled in places by their
 fortifications, or bristling with their ancient keeps.... Dorothy
 visited them with all the emotion of a creature who understands the
 past and evokes it with a passionate enthusiasm.
@@ -3263,7 +3238,7 @@ off the distant tragedy in which her father lost his life. She became
 the light-hearted, cheerful, and affectionate Dorothy of old. Castor,
 Pollux, and the captain were smothered with kisses. Saint-Quentin
 was thumped and shaken warmly by the hand. At the performance they
-gave under the ramparts of Vitré she displayed an astonishing energy
+gave under the ramparts of Vitré she displayed an astonishing energy
 and gayety. And when the audience had departed, she hustled off her
 four comrades on one of those mad rounds which were for them the most
 exquisite of treats.
@@ -3278,7 +3253,7 @@ Saint-Quentin wept with joy:
 
 "Wasn't I a princess before, idiot?"
 
-In taking them through the narrow streets of old Vitré, amid the huddle
+In taking them through the narrow streets of old Vitré, amid the huddle
 of wooden houses, roofed with rough tiles, by fits and starts she told
 them for the first time about her early years.
 
@@ -3408,7 +3383,7 @@ performance."
 
 "And he's going to meet us?"
 
-"Yes. On leaving Roborey and returning home, he is to meet us at Vitré
+"Yes. On leaving Roborey and returning home, he is to meet us at Vitré
 at about three o'clock. It's three now."
 
 They had climbed up to a point in the city from which one had a view of
@@ -3461,7 +3436,7 @@ But repining was of no avail and Dorothy was not the girl to waste
 much time on it. Without further delay she began to question the young
 man.
 
-"Why did you stay on at the château?"
+"Why did you stay on at the château?"
 
 "To be exact--because of d'Estreicher."
 
@@ -3513,7 +3488,7 @@ She started.
 
 "Does d'Estreicher know?"
 
-"I think so. I fancy I spoke of this fête before him, during my stay at
+"I think so. I fancy I spoke of this fête before him, during my stay at
 Roborey."
 
 "And when did he escape?"
@@ -3639,7 +3614,7 @@ man's age (he was seventy-five), and his dog Goliath--a huge beast,
 terrible to look at, with a terrific bark, but quite harmless and
 incapable of defending his master.
 
-At the big market-town of Clisson, they entered La Vendée. When they
+At the big market-town of Clisson, they entered La Vendée. When they
 had nearly reached the Manor Raoul would have liked to make a detour
 through the village where they would find the servants. They could take
 with them a couple of farm-laborers. Dorothy would not hear of it.
@@ -3921,7 +3896,7 @@ Raoul was dumfounded.
 "From some place among the hillocks. I have been thinking that this
 name of Hillocks Manor pointed to some inpenetrable hiding-place, and
 I've discovered a proof of it in one of those old books, which actually
-speaks of a hiding-place where the Vendéans lay hid, and says that it
+speaks of a hiding-place where the Vendéans lay hid, and says that it
 is believed to be in the neighborhood of Tiffauges and Clisson."
 
 "But how should d'Estreicher have learnt of it?"
@@ -4308,7 +4283,7 @@ minds: twice they saw the outline of a man moving stealthily among the
 thickets of the hillocks in the dusk.
 
 On the 30th of June, Dorothy begged Raoul to give all his staff a
-holiday next day. It was the day of the great religious fête at
+holiday next day. It was the day of the great religious fête at
 Clisson. Three of the stoutest of the servants, armed with guns, were
 ordered to come back surreptitiously at four in the afternoon and wait
 near a little inn, Masson Inn, a quarter of a mile from the Manor.
@@ -4356,10 +4331,10 @@ height."
 
 "No use. The slope--the water would blur the image."
 
-"Then," said he, laughing, "we must mount above them in an aëroplane."
+"Then," said he, laughing, "we must mount above them in an aëroplane."
 
 At lunch-time they parted. After the meal, Raoul superintended the
-departure of the _char-à-bancs_, which were taking all the staff of
+departure of the _char-à-bancs_, which were taking all the staff of
 the Manor to Clisson, then he took his way to the pool where he saw
 Dorothy's little troupe hard at work on the bank. The captain, always
 the man of affairs, was running to and fro somewhat in the manner of a
@@ -4373,8 +4348,8 @@ the hillocks.
 "Hang it all!" he said. "It looks to me as if you'd made preparations
 for one of your circus turns."
 
-"You're right," she replied gayly. "Having no aëroplane I fall back on
-my aërial rope-walking."
+"You're right," she replied gayly. "Having no aëroplane I fall back on
+my aërial rope-walking."
 
 "What? Is that what you intend to do?" he exclaimed in anxious accents.
 "But you're bound to fall."
@@ -4488,7 +4463,7 @@ scraggy in his wet tights, and with the other three boys danced round
 the platform, singing the lay of "The Recovered Medal."
 
 At the end of his breath the captain made the observation that there
-was a fête at Clisson and that they might very well go there to
+was a fête at Clisson and that they might very well go there to
 celebrate their success.
 
 "Let's harness One-eye' Magpie."
@@ -4517,7 +4492,7 @@ logic and exactness foreign to actuality. One might have said that
 they were scenes in a too-well-made play, of which it would have been
 easy, with a little experience of the playwright's art, to analyze the
 construction and the tricks. Certainly, without knowing Dorothy's game,
-he guessed the dénouement she proposed to bring about--the capture of
+he guessed the dénouement she proposed to bring about--the capture of
 d'Estreicher. But by means of what stratagem?
 
 "Don't question me," she said. "We are watched. So no heroics, no
@@ -5308,13 +5283,13 @@ Saint-Quentin how the attack had come to be so long delayed.
 "An accident, wasn't it?"
 
 "Yes," said he. "The detectives made a mistake about the inn; and the
-farm-servants were late getting back from the fête. It was necessary to
+farm-servants were late getting back from the fête. It was necessary to
 collect the whole lot; and the car broke down."
 
 Montfaucon came running up. Dorothy went on:
 
 "Perhaps, Saint-Quentin, there'll be the name of a town, or rather of
-a château, on the medal. In that case, find out all you can about the
+a château, on the medal. In that case, find out all you can about the
 route and take the caravan there. Did you find it, captain?"
 
 "Yes, mummy."
@@ -5337,7 +5312,7 @@ On the reverse these lines:
 
     _July 12, 1921._
 
-    _At noon. Before the clock of the Château of Roche-Périac._
+    _At noon. Before the clock of the Château of Roche-Périac._
 
 "The twelfth of July," muttered Dorothy. "I have time to faint."
 
@@ -5355,11 +5330,11 @@ It was not till nearly three days afterwards that Dorothy got the
 better of the physical torpor, aggravated by fever, which had
 overwhelmed her. The four boys gave a performance on the outskirts of
 Nantes. Montfaucon took the place of the directress in the leading
-rôle. It was a less taking spectacle; but in it the captain displayed
+rôle. It was a less taking spectacle; but in it the captain displayed
 such an animated comicality that the takings were good.
 
 Saint-Quentin insisted that Dorothy should take another two days' rest.
-What need was there to hurry? The village of Roche-Périac was at the
+What need was there to hurry? The village of Roche-Périac was at the
 most sixty-five miles from Nantes so that there was no need for them to
 set out till six days before the time appointed.
 
@@ -5404,7 +5379,7 @@ overwhelmed One-eyed Magpie.
 
 At last, next day, the 11th of July, they saw on a sign-post:
 
-    _Roche-Périac 12-1/2 Miles_
+    _Roche-Périac 12-1/2 Miles_
 
 "We shall sleep there to-night," declared Dorothy.
 
@@ -5430,7 +5405,7 @@ Dorothy concealed her amazement and said:
 
 "Yes," said the tramp quite simply. "That and a piece of advice: to
 go on the 12th of July every year, and wait in front of the church of
-Roche-Périac for somebody who will give me hundreds and thousands. I
+Roche-Périac for somebody who will give me hundreds and thousands. I
 go there every year. I've never received anything but pennies. All the
 same, it keeps one going, that idea does. I shall be there to-morrow,
 as I was last year ... and as I shall be next."
@@ -5439,25 +5414,25 @@ The old man fell back upon his own thoughts. Dorothy said no more. But
 an hour later she offered the shelter of the box to the woman and the
 club-footed child, whom they had at last overtaken. And questioning
 this woman, she learnt that she was a factory hand from Paris who was
-going to the church of Roche-Périac that her child's foot might be
+going to the church of Roche-Périac that her child's foot might be
 healed.
 
 "In my family," said the woman, "in my father's time and my
 grandfather's too, one always did the same thing when a child was ill,
 one took it on the 12th of July into the chapel of Saint Fortunat at
-Roche-Périac. It's a certain cure."
+Roche-Périac. It's a certain cure."
 
 So, by these two other channels, the legend had passed to this woman
 of the people and this tramp, but a deformed legend, of which there
 only remained a few shreds of the truth: the church took the place of
-the château, Saint Fortunat of the fortune. Only the day of the month
+the château, Saint Fortunat of the fortune. Only the day of the month
 mattered; there was no question of the year. There was no mention at
 all of the medal. And each was making a pilgrimage towards the place
 from which so many families had looked for miraculous aid.
 
 That evening the caravan reached the village, and at once Dorothy
-obtained information about the Château de la Roche-Périac. The only
-château of that name that was known was some ruins six miles further on
+obtained information about the Château de la Roche-Périac. The only
+château of that name that was known was some ruins six miles further on
 situated on the shore of the ocean on a small peninsula.
 
 "We'll sleep here," said Dorothy, "and we'll start early in the
@@ -5484,7 +5459,7 @@ went to sleep in the caravan, leaning against one another. At half-past
 nine they stopped. They had come to a cottage dignified with the name
 of an inn, on the door of which they read "Widow Amoureux. Lodging for
 man and beast." A few hundred yards away, at the bottom of a slope
-which ended in a low cliff, the little peninsula of Périac stretched
+which ended in a low cliff, the little peninsula of Périac stretched
 out into the ocean five promontories which looked like the five fingers
 of a hand. On their left was the mouth of the Vilaine.
 
@@ -5492,7 +5467,7 @@ For the children it was the end of the expedition. They made a meal in
 a dimly lighted room, furnished with a zinc counter, in which coffee
 was served. Then while Castor and Pollux fed One-eyed Magpie, Dorothy
 questioned the widow Amoureux, a big, cheerful, talkative country-woman
-about the ruins of Roche-Périac.
+about the ruins of Roche-Périac.
 
 "Ah, you're going there too, are you, my dear?" the widow exclaimed.
 
@@ -5510,7 +5485,7 @@ in the woods and turn over the stones."
 
 "It's allowed then, is it?"
 
-"Why not? The island of Périac--I call it an island because at high
+"Why not? The island of Périac--I call it an island because at high
 tide the road to it is covered--belongs to the monks of the monastery
 of Sarzeau, a couple of leagues further on. It seems, indeed, that
 they're ready to sell the ruins and all the land. But who'd buy them?
@@ -5593,13 +5568,13 @@ was as still as a statue.
 "Good-bye," said Dorothy, almost happy at their inaction and at being
 alone to prosecute the enterprise.
 
-The approach to the peninsula of Périac is made very narrow by two
+The approach to the peninsula of Périac is made very narrow by two
 marshes, according to the widow Amoureux reputed to be very dangerous,
 between which a narrow band of solid ground affords the only path. This
 path mounted a wooded ravine, which some faded writing on an old board
 described as "Bad Going" and came out to a plateau covered with gorse
-and heather. At the end of twenty minutes Dorothy crossed the débris of
-part of the old wall which ran round the château.
+and heather. At the end of twenty minutes Dorothy crossed the débris of
+part of the old wall which ran round the château.
 
 She slackened her pace. At every step it seemed to her that she was
 penetrating into a more and more mysterious region in which time had
@@ -5621,8 +5596,8 @@ And of her inmost self she asked this question:
 
 "Suppose I have made a mistake? Suppose all this means nothing at all?
 Yes: in the little leather bag I have in my pocket, there is a medal,
-and on it the name of a château, and a given day in a given year. And
-here I am at the château at the appointed time; but all the same what
+and on it the name of a château, and a given day in a given year. And
+here I am at the château at the appointed time; but all the same what
 is there to prove that my reasoning is sound, or that anything is going
 to happen? A hundred and fifty or two hundred years is a very long
 time, and any number of things may have happened to sweep away the
@@ -5666,8 +5641,8 @@ it, on a marble tablet, some scarcely legible letters, and mounting a
 pile of stones, she could decipher the words: _In robore fortuna!_
 
 _In robore fortuna!_ The beautiful and noble motto that one
-found everywhere, at Roborey, at the Manor, at the Château de la
-Roche-Périac, and on the medal! Was Dorothy right then? Were the
+found everywhere, at Roborey, at the Manor, at the Château de la
+Roche-Périac, and on the medal! Was Dorothy right then? Were the
 instructions given by the medal still valid? And was it truly a
 meeting-place to which one was summoned, across time and space, in
 front of this dead clock?
@@ -5845,7 +5820,7 @@ embarrassment of her companions the gayer she grew. Fandango, jig,
 reel, she gave a snatch of each, with a simulated accompaniment of
 castanets, and a genuine accompaniment of English songs and Auvergnat
 ritornelles, and above all of bursts of laughter which awakened the
-echoes of Roche-Périac.
+echoes of Roche-Périac.
 
 "But laugh too, all five of you!" she cried. "You look like five
 mummies. It's I who order you to laugh, I, Dorothy, rope-dancer and
@@ -5859,7 +5834,7 @@ charged with the execution of the provisions of a will. That's much
 clearer than you think.... We'll explain it to you.... You are the
 notary?"
 
-"That is the fact," stammered the gentleman. "I am Maître Delarue,
+"That is the fact," stammered the gentleman. "I am Maître Delarue,
 notary at Nantes."
 
 "At Nantes? Excellent; we know where we are. And it's a question of
@@ -5879,22 +5854,22 @@ rendezvous."
 
 He made as if to look at his watch. She stopped him:
 
-"You needn't take the trouble, Maître Delarue; we've heard the Angelus.
+"You needn't take the trouble, Maître Delarue; we've heard the Angelus.
 You are punctual at the rendezvous.... We are too.... Everything is in
 order.... Each has his gold medal.... They're going to show it to you."
 
-She drew Maître Delarue towards the clock, and said with even greater
+She drew Maître Delarue towards the clock, and said with even greater
 animation:
 
-"This is Maître Delarue, the notary. You understand? If you don't, I
+"This is Maître Delarue, the notary. You understand? If you don't, I
 can speak English--and Italian--and Javanese."
 
 All four of them protested that they understood French.
 
-"Excellent. We shall understand one another better. Then this is Maître
+"Excellent. We shall understand one another better. Then this is Maître
 Delarue; he is the notary, the man who has been instructed to preside
 at our meeting. In France notaries represent the dead. So that since
-it is a dead man who brings us together, you see how important Maître
+it is a dead man who brings us together, you see how important Maître
 Delarue's position is in the matter. You don't grasp it? How funny that
 is! To me it is all so clear--and so amusing. So strange! It's the
 prettiest adventure I ever heard of--and the most thrilling. Think now!
@@ -5966,7 +5941,7 @@ France rather out of curiosity."
 
 The American took the gold medal from his waistcoat pocket. It was
 exactly like the one Dorothy possessed--the inscription, the size, the
-dull color were the same. Dorothy showed it to Maître Delarue, then
+dull color were the same. Dorothy showed it to Maître Delarue, then
 gave it back to the American, and went on with her questioning:
 
 "Number two--English, aren't you?"
@@ -6014,7 +5989,7 @@ call on you for the explanation."
 "I don't quite know...."
 
 "How do you mean you don't know?... Why this leather satchel.... And
-why have you made the journey from Nantes to Roche-Périac? Come, open
+why have you made the journey from Nantes to Roche-Périac? Come, open
 your satchel and read to us the documents it must contain."
 
 "You truly believe----"
@@ -6024,7 +5999,7 @@ myself, performed our duty in coming here and informing you of our
 identity. It is your turn to carry out your mission. We are all ears."
 
 The gayety of the young girl spread around her such an atmosphere
-of cordiality that even Maître Delarue himself felt its beneficent
+of cordiality that even Maître Delarue himself felt its beneficent
 effects. Besides, the business was already in train; and he entered
 smoothly on ground over which the young girl had traced, in the midst
 of apparently impenetrable brushwood, a path which he could follow with
@@ -6051,24 +6026,24 @@ I installed myself at Nantes in the office of a notary whose practice
 I had bought, my predecessor, after having given me full information
 about the more complicated cases in hand, exclaimed: 'Ah, but I was
 forgetting ... not that it's of any importance.... But all the same....
-Look, my dear confrère, this is the oldest set of papers in the
+Look, my dear confrère, this is the oldest set of papers in the
 office.... And a measly set too, since it only consists of a sealed
 letter with a note of instructions, which I will read to you:
 
     _Missive intrusted to the strict care of the Sire Barbier,
     scrivener, and of his successors, to be opened on the 12th of
-    July, 1921, at noon, in front of the clock of the Château of
-    Roche-Périac, and to be read in the presence of all possessors
+    July, 1921, at noon, in front of the clock of the Château of
+    Roche-Périac, and to be read in the presence of all possessors
     of a gold medal struck at my instance._
 
 "There! No other explanations. My predecessor did not receive any from
 the man from whom he had bought the practice. The most he could learn,
-after researches among the old registers of the parish of Périac,
+after researches among the old registers of the parish of Périac,
 was that the Sire Barbier (Hippolyte Jean), scrivener, lived at the
 beginning of the eighteenth century. At what epoch was his office
 closed? For what reasons were his papers transported to Nantes? Perhaps
 we may suppose that owing to certain circumstances, one of the lords
-of Roche-Périac left the country and settled down at Nantes with his
+of Roche-Périac left the country and settled down at Nantes with his
 furniture, his horses, and his household down to the village scrivener.
 Anyhow, for nearly two hundred years the letter intrusted to the strict
 care of the scrivener Barbier and his successors, lay at the bottom of
@@ -6076,13 +6051,13 @@ drawers and pigeon-holes, without any one's having tried to violate the
 secrecy enjoined by the writer of it. And so it came about that in all
 probability it would fall to my lot to break the seal!"
 
-Maître Delarue made a pause and looked at his auditors. They were,
+Maître Delarue made a pause and looked at his auditors. They were,
 as they say, hanging on his lips. Pleased with the impression he had
 produced, he tapped the leather satchel, and continued:
 
 "Need I tell you that my thoughts have very often dwelt on this
 prospect and that I have been curious to learn the contents of such
-a letter? A journey even which I made to this château gave me no
+a letter? A journey even which I made to this château gave me no
 information, in spite of my searches in the archives of the villages
 and towns of the district. Then the appointed time drew near. Before
 doing anything I went to consult the president of the civil court.
@@ -6114,7 +6089,7 @@ George Errington, of London, added:
 
 So the moment had come. They gathered more closely round the notary.
 A certain gravity mingled with the gayety on the young faces; and it
-grew deeper when Maître Delarue displayed before the eyes of all one
+grew deeper when Maître Delarue displayed before the eyes of all one
 of those large square envelopes which formerly one made oneself out
 of a thick sheet of paper. It was discolored with that peculiar shine
 which only the lapse of time can give to paper. It was sealed with
@@ -6174,7 +6149,7 @@ Archibald Webster, of Philadelphia, observed:
 "This gentleman was mad."
 
 "The word resurrection is perhaps used in a symbolic sense," said
-Maître Delarue. "We shall learn from what follows: I will continue:
+Maître Delarue. "We shall learn from what follows: I will continue:
 
     "'_My children_'...."
 
@@ -6182,12 +6157,12 @@ He stopped again and said:
 
 "'_My children_'.... He is addressing you."
 
-"For goodness sake, Maître Delarue, do not stop again, I beg you!"
+"For goodness sake, Maître Delarue, do not stop again, I beg you!"
 exclaimed Dorothy. "All this is thrilling."
 
 "Nevertheless...."
 
-"No, Maître Delarue, comment is useless. We're eager to know, aren't
+"No, Maître Delarue, comment is useless. We're eager to know, aren't
 we, comrades?"
 
 The four young men supported her vehemently.
@@ -6208,7 +6183,7 @@ repetitions imposed by the difficulties of the text:
     very root? The story goes that you left that finger at the bottom
     of one of your retorts, for you have the reputation, Marquis, of
     being something of an alchemist, and of seeking, inside the walls
-    of your Château of Roche-Périac, the elixir of life._'
+    of your Château of Roche-Périac, the elixir of life._'
 
     "'I do not seek it, Monsieur de Fontenelle,' I answered, 'I possess
     it.'
@@ -6277,7 +6252,7 @@ repetitions imposed by the difficulties of the text:
     as a proof of my lively imagination--and doubtless, as he said to
     himself, of my insanity."
 
-Maître Delarue paused to take breath and looked round the circle with
+Maître Delarue paused to take breath and looked round the circle with
 questioning eyes.
 
 Marco Dario, of Genoa, threw back his head and laughed. The Russian
@@ -6289,7 +6264,7 @@ showed his white teeth. The two Anglo-Saxons seemed greatly amused.
 
 Dorothy said nothing; her eyes were thoughtful.
 
-Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
+Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
 
     "Monsieur de Fontenelle was wrong to laugh, my children. There was
     no imagination or insanity about it. The great Indian priests know
@@ -6305,14 +6280,14 @@ Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
     of my project, have sworn to obey me. I say good-bye to my age.
 
     "Learn, my children, the events which are about to take place at
-    the Château of Roche-Périac. At two o'clock in the afternoon I
+    the Château of Roche-Périac. At two o'clock in the afternoon I
     shall fall into a stupor. The doctor, summoned by Geoffrey, will
     ascertain that my heart is no longer beating. I shall be quite dead
     as far as human knowledge goes; and my servants will nail me up in
     the coffin which is ready for me. When night comes, Geoffrey and
     his wife will take me out of that coffin and carry me on a
     stretcher, to the ruins of Cocquesin tower, the oldest donjon of
-    the Lords of Périac. Then they will fill the coffin with stones and
+    the Lords of Périac. Then they will fill the coffin with stones and
     nail it up again.
 
     "For his part, Master Barbier, executor of my will and
@@ -6331,7 +6306,7 @@ Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
 
     "When you read this letter, my children, the hour of noon on the
     12th of July, 1921, will have struck. You will be gathered together
-    under the clock of my château, fifty yards from old Cocquesin
+    under the clock of my château, fifty yards from old Cocquesin
     tower, where I shall have been sleeping for two centuries. I have
     chosen it as my resting-place, calculating that, if the revolutions
     which I foresee destroy the buildings in use, they will leave alone
@@ -6360,7 +6335,7 @@ Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
     be sleeping there.
 
     "Do not be surprised, my children, at finding me younger perhaps
-    than the portrait of me which Monsieur Nicolas de Largillière, the
+    than the portrait of me which Monsieur Nicolas de Largillière, the
     King's painter, painted last year, and which hangs at the head of
     my bed. Two centuries' sleep, the resting of my heart, which will
     scarcely beat, will, I have no doubt, have filled up my wrinkles
@@ -6431,7 +6406,7 @@ Silence fell and Maître Dalarue continued:
 
     "Jean-Pierre-Augustin de la Roche, Marquis de ----"
 
-Maître Delarue was silent, bent nearer to the paper, and murmured:
+Maître Delarue was silent, bent nearer to the paper, and murmured:
 
 "The signature is scarcely legible: the name begins with a B or an
 R ... the flourish muddles up all the letters."
@@ -6480,14 +6455,14 @@ Dorothy.
 
 "We'll go and ask him."
 
-Maître Delarue protested:
+Maître Delarue protested:
 
 "You'll go without me, mademoiselle. Understand once and for all that I
 am not going to see whether Jean-Pierre-Augustin de la Roche, Marquis
 de Beaugreval, is still alive at the age of two hundred and sixty-two
 years!"
 
-"But he isn't as old as all that, Maître Delarue. We need not count the
+"But he isn't as old as all that, Maître Delarue. We need not count the
 two hundred years' sleep. Then it's only a matter of sixty-two years;
 that's quite normal. His friend, Monsieur de Fontenelle, as the Marquis
 predicted and thanks to an elixir of life, lived to be a hundred."
@@ -6518,12 +6493,12 @@ Kourobelef, who had only a slice of bread, dragged a large flat stone
 in front of her by way of table.
 
 "This is really nice!" she said, clapping her hands. "A real family
-lunch! We invite you to join us, Maître Delarue, and you also, soldier
+lunch! We invite you to join us, Maître Delarue, and you also, soldier
 of Wrangel."
 
 The meal, washed down by the good wine of Anjou, was a merry one. They
 drank the health of the worthy nobleman who had had the excellent idea
-of bringing them together at his château; and Webster made a speech in
+of bringing them together at his château; and Webster made a speech in
 his honor.
 
 The diamonds, the codicil, the survival of their ancestor and his
@@ -6570,7 +6545,7 @@ full of deference. Really they did not understand it.
 
 It was not till three in the afternoon that they decided to carry
 the adventure to its end. They all started to do so in the spirit of
-picnickers. Maître Delarue, to whose head the good wine of Anjou had
+picnickers. Maître Delarue, to whose head the good wine of Anjou had
 mounted in some quantity, with his broad bow unknotted and his tall hat
 on the back of his head, led the way on his donkey, chanting couplets
 about the resurrection of Marquis Lazarus. Dario, of Genoa, imitated
@@ -6580,12 +6555,12 @@ flowers.
 
        *       *       *       *       *
 
-They went round the hillock, which was composed of the débris of the
-old château, behind the clock and along a beautiful avenue of trees
+They went round the hillock, which was composed of the débris of the
+old château, behind the clock and along a beautiful avenue of trees
 centuries old, which ended in a circular glade in the middle of which
 rose a magnificent oak.
 
-Maître Delarue said in the tone of a guide:
+Maître Delarue said in the tone of a guide:
 
 "These are the trees planted by the Marquis de Beaugreval's father.
 You will observe their vigor. Venerable trees, if ever there were any!
@@ -6596,7 +6571,7 @@ Then they came to the woody slopes of a small hill, on the summit of
 which in the middle of a circular embankment, formed by the ruins of
 the wall that had encircled it, rose a tower oval in shape.
 
-"Cocquesin tower," said Maître Delarue, more and more cheerful.
+"Cocquesin tower," said Maître Delarue, more and more cheerful.
 "Venerable ruins, if ever there were any! Remnants of the feudal keep!
 That's where the sleeping Marquis of the enchanted wood is waiting
 for us, whom we're going to resuscitate with a thimbleful of foaming
@@ -6630,7 +6605,7 @@ One might have described it as the oval of a Roman amphitheater, with
 a series of small vaulted chambers above, of which one perceived the
 gaping openings, separated by passages into distinct groups.
 
-"The visitors who risk coming to Roche-Périac can enter from this
+"The visitors who risk coming to Roche-Périac can enter from this
 side," said Dorothy. "Wedding parties from the neighborhood must
 come here now and then. Look: there are greasy pieces of paper and
 sardine-tins scattered about on the ground."
@@ -6665,7 +6640,7 @@ Kourobelef.
 "We're ready," replied Errington and Dario.
 
 "Then push gently with a continuous pressure. And above all have faith!
-Maître Delarue has no faith. So I am not asking him to do anything."
+Maître Delarue has no faith. So I am not asking him to do anything."
 
 The two young men set their hands against the two stones and pushed
 hard.
@@ -6700,7 +6675,7 @@ the same exactness.
 "If it turns out that there are a hundred and thirty-two steps, I shall
 declare myself convinced," said Errington.
 
-"What?" said Maître Delarue, who also appeared deeply impressed. "Do
+"What?" said Maître Delarue, who also appeared deeply impressed. "Do
 you mean to assert that the Marquis----"
 
 "That the Marquis is awaiting us like a man who is expecting our visit."
@@ -6715,7 +6690,7 @@ narrow space.
 
 "Fifteen--sixteen--seventeen," Dario counted.
 
-To hearten himself, Maître Delarue sang the couplets of "da Tour,
+To hearten himself, Maître Delarue sang the couplets of "da Tour,
 prende garde." But at the thirtieth step he began to save his breath.
 
 "It's a steep climb, isn't it?" said Dorothy.
@@ -6724,10 +6699,10 @@ prende garde." But at the thirtieth step he began to save his breath.
 It makes my legs a bit shaky."
 
 At the fiftieth step a hole in the wall let in some light. Dorothy
-looked out and saw the woods of La Roche-Périac; but a cornice, jutting
+looked out and saw the woods of La Roche-Périac; but a cornice, jutting
 out, prevented her from seeing the ground at the foot of the keep.
 
-They continued the ascent. Maître Delarue kept singing in a more and
+They continued the ascent. Maître Delarue kept singing in a more and
 more shaky voice, and towards the end it was rather a groaning than a
 singing.
 
@@ -6757,7 +6732,7 @@ low door.
 "Goodness!" muttered the lawyer, who was no longer trying to dissemble
 his uneasiness. "The program is indeed being carried out item by item."
 
-"Ah, you're becoming a trifle less sceptical, Maître Delarue. You'll be
+"Ah, you're becoming a trifle less sceptical, Maître Delarue. You'll be
 declaring next that the door will open."
 
 "I do declare it. This old lunatic was a clever mechanician and a
@@ -6783,7 +6758,7 @@ There was nothing in the way of furniture in it. But one judged that
 there was a small, low room, which formed an alcove, from the piece of
 tapestry, roughly nailed to a beam, which ran along the left side of it.
 
-The five men and Dorothy did not stir, silent, motionless. Maître
+The five men and Dorothy did not stir, silent, motionless. Maître
 Delarue, extremely pale, seemed very ill at ease indeed.
 
 Was it the fumes of wine, or the distress inspired by mystery?
@@ -6851,7 +6826,7 @@ vanish like a phantom.
 Besides, to make such an experiment, would it not be to commit
 sacrilege? To suspect death and question a corpse: none of them dared.
 
-Dorothy shivered, her womanly nerves strained to excess. Maître Delarue
+Dorothy shivered, her womanly nerves strained to excess. Maître Delarue
 besought her:
 
 "Let's get away.... It's got nothing to do with us.... It's a devilish
@@ -6866,7 +6841,7 @@ seconds there was a film on it.
 "He's alive! He's alive!" muttered the young people, keeping with
 difficulty their excitement within bounds.
 
-Maître Delarue's legs were so shaky that he had to sit down on the foot
+Maître Delarue's legs were so shaky that he had to sit down on the foot
 of the bed. He murmured again and again:
 
 "A devilish business! We've no right----"
@@ -6992,7 +6967,7 @@ Dorothy gazed; her eyes missed no slightest movement. Like her, the
 young men remained motionless, with drawn faces. The Italian, however,
 just sketched the sign of the cross.
 
-"He's alive!" broke in Maître Delarue. "Look; he's looking at us."
+"He's alive!" broke in Maître Delarue. "Look; he's looking at us."
 
 A strange gaze. It did not shift; it did not try to see. The gaze of
 the newly born, animated by no thought. Vague, unconscious, it shunned
@@ -7100,12 +7075,12 @@ no expression, no desire.
 
 Without turning away from him, Dorothy called out to the notary:
 
-"Don't you think we ought to offer him the second envelope, Maître
+"Don't you think we ought to offer him the second envelope, Maître
 Delarue, the codicil? His understanding may perhaps awake at the sight
 of this paper which formerly belonged to him, and which, according to
 the instructions in the will, we're to hand over to him."
 
-Maître Delarue agreed with her and passed the envelope to her. She held
+Maître Delarue agreed with her and passed the envelope to her. She held
 it out to the old man, saying:
 
 "Here are the directions for finding the diamonds, written by yourself.
@@ -7141,7 +7116,7 @@ the violence of laughter long restrained.
 Bent double, holding her ribs, she laughed till it hurt her. Her pretty
 head shook her wavy hair in a series of jerks. And it was a laugh
 so fresh and so young, of such irresistible gayety that the young
-men burst out laughing in their turn. Maître Delarue, on the other
+men burst out laughing in their turn. Maître Delarue, on the other
 hand, irritated by a hilarity which seemed to him out of place in the
 circumstances protested in a tone of annoyance:
 
@@ -7181,7 +7156,7 @@ Lazarus de Beaugreval! Then you didn't see?"
 
 "A false tooth!"
 
-Maître Delarue repeated slowly:
+Maître Delarue repeated slowly:
 
 "There's a false tooth?"
 
@@ -7189,7 +7164,7 @@ Maître Delarue repeated slowly:
 
 "Well, what about it?"
 
-Dorothy did not immediately reply. She gave Maître Delarue plenty of
+Dorothy did not immediately reply. She gave Maître Delarue plenty of
 time to collect his wits and to grasp the full value of this discovery.
 
 He said again in a less assured tone:
@@ -7206,7 +7181,7 @@ have a false tooth put in the place of the one which used to ache in
 the days of Louis XIV."
 
 Dorothy had finally succeeded in repressing the ill-timed mirth which
-had so terribly shocked Maître Delarue. She was merely smiling--but
+had so terribly shocked Maître Delarue. She was merely smiling--but
 smiling with an extremely mischievous and delighted air. Naturally the
 four strangers, grouped closely round her, were also smiling with the
 air of people amused beyond words.
@@ -7228,7 +7203,7 @@ when he swallowed a drug which put an end to his brilliant existence
 for good and all. All that remains of the Marquis, in spite of his
 hopes of a resurrection, is: firstly, a pinch of ashes mingled with the
 dust of this room; secondly, the authentic and curious letter which
-Maître Delarue read to us; thirdly, a lot of enormous diamonds hidden
+Maître Delarue read to us; thirdly, a lot of enormous diamonds hidden
 somewhere or other; fourthly, the clothes he was wearing at the supreme
 hour when he voluntarily shut himself up in his tomb, that is to say in
 this room."
@@ -7265,7 +7240,7 @@ did write, and along different lines it has come down to our time."
 
 "It's a simple supposition."
 
-"It's a supposition more than probable, Maître Delarue, since besides
+"It's a supposition more than probable, Maître Delarue, since besides
 us, besides these four young men and myself, there are other families
 in which the history, or a part of the history of Beaugreval, has been
 handed down; and as a consequence for some months I've been fighting
@@ -7275,7 +7250,7 @@ father."
 Her words made a very deep impression. She entered into details:
 
 "The family of Chagny-Roborey in the Orne, the family of Argonne in the
-Ardennes, the family of Davernoie in Vendée, are so many focuses of the
+Ardennes, the family of Davernoie in Vendée, are so many focuses of the
 tradition. And around it dramas, robberies, assassinations, madness, a
 regular boiling up of passion and violence."
 
@@ -7284,7 +7259,7 @@ are the others doing?"
 
 "They're waiting. They're waiting for a date of which they are
 ignorant. They are waiting for the medal. I saw in front of the church
-of Roche-Périac a tramp and a factory hand, a woman, from Paris. I saw
+of Roche-Périac a tramp and a factory hand, a woman, from Paris. I saw
 two poor mad people who came to the rendezvous and are waiting at the
 edge of the water. A week ago I handed over to the police a dangerous
 criminal of the name of d'Estreicher, a distant connection of my
@@ -7343,7 +7318,7 @@ impatience. I knew where I was. But at the same time Fortune was kind
 to me; I saw that little bit of gold in his mouth."
 
 It was all linked together in a flawless chain of reasoning. Dorothy
-had set forth the coördination of events, causes and effects, as one
+had set forth the coördination of events, causes and effects, as one
 displays a piece of tapestry in which the complicated play of design
 and color produces the most harmonious unity.
 
@@ -7370,12 +7345,12 @@ would have said that events were happening in a manner far from
 pleasing to her, which seemed to promise others which she distrusted in
 advance. But what events? What was there to fear?
 
-In the silence Maître Delarue suddenly cried:
+In the silence Maître Delarue suddenly cried:
 
 "Well, for my part, I assert that you're making a mistake. I'm not at
 all of your opinion, mademoiselle."
 
-Maître Delarue was one of those people who cling the more firmly to an
+Maître Delarue was one of those people who cling the more firmly to an
 opinion the longer they have been adopting it. The resurrection of the
 Marquis suddenly appeared to him a dogma he was bound to defend.
 
@@ -7388,7 +7363,7 @@ you do not take into account."
 "What evidence?" she asked.
 
 "Well, his portrait! His indisputable resemblance to the portrait of
-the Marquis de Beaugreval, executed by Largillière!"
+the Marquis de Beaugreval, executed by Largillière!"
 
 "Who tells you that this is the portrait of the Marquis, and not the
 portrait of the man himself? It's a very easy way of resembling any
@@ -7400,7 +7375,7 @@ one."
 canvas, instead of having been changed, has simply been painted over in
 such a way as to represent the false Marquis here present."
 
-"And the cut-off finger?" exclaimed Maître Delarue triumphantly.
+"And the cut-off finger?" exclaimed Maître Delarue triumphantly.
 
 "A finger can be cut off."
 
@@ -7453,13 +7428,13 @@ himself. "I don't see what threatens us. Besides, the affair draws to
 its end. As regards the precious stones, open the codicil. And as far
 as I am concerned, my task is performed."
 
-"It isn't a matter of knowing whether your task is performed, Maître
+"It isn't a matter of knowing whether your task is performed, Maître
 Delarue," Dorothy answered in the same thoughtful tone. "It's a matter
 of escaping a danger which is not quite clear to me but which permits
 me to expect anything, which I foresee more and more clearly. Where
 will it come from? I don't know. But it exists."
 
-"It's terrible," groaned Maître Delarue. "How are we to defend
+"It's terrible," groaned Maître Delarue. "How are we to defend
 ourselves? What are we to do?"
 
 "What are we to do?"
@@ -7577,22 +7552,22 @@ phrases, keeping herself simply to the actual facts of the situation,
 in the hope perhaps that one of her words might strike the enlightening
 spark out of its flint.
 
-"Maître Delarue, there's a death and a crime. We must therefore inform
+"Maître Delarue, there's a death and a crime. We must therefore inform
 the police. However ... however I think we could put it off for a day
 or two."
 
 "Put it off?" he protested. "That's a step I won't take. That is a
 formality which admits of no delay."
 
-"You will never get back to Périac."
+"You will never get back to Périac."
 
 "Why not?"
 
 "Because the band which had been able to get rid under our very eyes of
 a confederate who was in its way, must have taken precautions, and the
-road which leads to Périac must be guarded."
+road which leads to Périac must be guarded."
 
-"You believe that?... You believe that?" stuttered Maître Delarue.
+"You believe that?... You believe that?" stuttered Maître Delarue.
 
 "I believe it."
 
@@ -7604,11 +7579,11 @@ men beside her, it was not she who directed events. She was under the
 constraint of the law of the enemy who was oppressing and in a way
 directing her as his fancy took him.
 
-"But it's terrible," lamented Maître Delarue. "I cannot stay here
+"But it's terrible," lamented Maître Delarue. "I cannot stay here
 forever.... My practice demands my attention.... I have a wife ...
 children."
 
-"Go, Maître Delarue. But first of all hand over to us the envelope of
+"Go, Maître Delarue. But first of all hand over to us the envelope of
 the codicil that I gave back to you. We will open it in your presence."
 
 "Have you the right?"
@@ -7624,7 +7599,7 @@ five of us ... all five."
 She stopped short. She had uttered words which, as the saying goes,
 clashed curiously. The contradiction of the terms she had used--four
 diamonds, five proprietors--was so flagrant that the young men were
-struck by them, and that Maître Delarue himself, absorbed as he was in
+struck by them, and that Maître Delarue himself, absorbed as he was in
 other matters, received a considerable shock.
 
 "As a matter of fact that's true: you are five. How was it we didn't
@@ -7636,7 +7611,7 @@ Dario explained.
 we have only paid attention to this number four, four strangers in
 contrast with you, mademoiselle, who are French."
 
-"But you can't get away from the fact that you are five," said Maître
+"But you can't get away from the fact that you are five," said Maître
 Delarue.
 
 "And what about it?" said Webster.
@@ -7667,7 +7642,7 @@ Webster was the first to present his medal:
 It showed no peculiarity which gave them to believe that it was not
 one of the four original pieces struck by the instructions of the
 Marquis and controlled by him. An examination of the medals of Dario,
-Kourobelef, and Errington showed the same. Maître Delarue who had taken
+Kourobelef, and Errington showed the same. Maître Delarue who had taken
 all four of them and was examining them minutely, held out his hand for
 Dorothy's medal.
 
@@ -7718,12 +7693,12 @@ one should be on their guard against her, before she had considered
 the matter and fully taken in the tragic aspect of the situation. She
 accepted therefore the notary's hypothesis and murmured:
 
-"After all ... yes ... that's it. You must be right, Maître Delarue,
+"After all ... yes ... that's it. You must be right, Maître Delarue,
 I've lost that medal.... But how? I can't think in what way I could
 have lost it ... at what moment."
 
 She spoke in a very low voice, an absent-minded voice. The parted
-curls showed her forehead furrowed by anxiety. Maître Delarue and the
+curls showed her forehead furrowed by anxiety. Maître Delarue and the
 four strangers were exchanging futile phrases; not one of them seemed
 worth her consideration. Then they were silent. The silence lengthened.
 The lamps were switched off. The light from the little window was
@@ -7743,7 +7718,7 @@ her mind there presented themselves in quick succession during the
 course of a few seconds all the questions and all the answers, all the
 arguments and all the proofs.
 
-She recalled the fact that the night before at the village of Périac
+She recalled the fact that the night before at the village of Périac
 the caravan had nearly been destroyed by fire. Who had started that
 fire? And with what motive? Might she not suppose that one of those
 unhoped-for helpers, who had appeared so suddenly in the very nick of
@@ -7752,7 +7727,7 @@ ransack her sleeping birth, and open the little leather purse hanging
 from a nail.
 
 Possessor of the medal, the chief of the gang returned in haste to
-the ruins of Roche-Périac and disposed his men in that peninsula, the
+the ruins of Roche-Périac and disposed his men in that peninsula, the
 innermost recesses of which must be known to him, and in which he had
 everything arranged in view of the fateful day, the 12th of July,
 1921. Doubtless he had had a dress rehearsal with his confederate cast
@@ -7879,7 +7854,7 @@ him now. Then, why that signal?"
 
 She was about to go down in her turn when she found herself caught
 by her petticoat. From the beginning of the scene, in front of
-d'Estreicher and his leveled revolvers, Maître Delarue had sunk down in
+d'Estreicher and his leveled revolvers, Maître Delarue had sunk down in
 the darkest corner, and now he was imploring her, almost on his knees:
 
 "You aren't going to abandon me--with the corpse?... And then that
@@ -7892,7 +7867,7 @@ She pulled him to his feet.
 "Go to their help? Stout young fellows like them?" he cried indignantly.
 
 Dorothy drew him along by the hand as one leads a child. They went,
-anyhow, half-way down the staircase. Maître Delarue was sniveling,
+anyhow, half-way down the staircase. Maître Delarue was sniveling,
 Dorothy muttering:
 
 "Why that signal? To whom was it given? And what are they to do?"
@@ -7919,7 +7894,7 @@ the wall.
 uses this exit. In the event of danger it's an easy way to safety,
 since this side of the tower is opposite the entrance in the interior."
 
-The way to safety was less easy for Maître Delarue, who began by
+The way to safety was less easy for Maître Delarue, who began by
 groaning.
 
 "Never in my life! Get down that way?"
@@ -7931,14 +7906,14 @@ groaning.
 "Do you prefer a knife stuck in you? Remember that d'Estreicher has
 only one aim--the codicil. And you have it."
 
-Terrified, Maître Delarue made up his mind to it, on condition that
+Terrified, Maître Delarue made up his mind to it, on condition that
 Dorothy descended first to make sure that the ladder was in a good
 state and that no rungs were missing.
 
 Dorothy did not bother about rungs. She gripped the ladder between
 her legs and slid from the top to bottom. Then catching hold of the
 two ropes she kept them as stiff as she could. The operation was
-nevertheless painful and lengthy; and Maître Delarue expended so much
+nevertheless painful and lengthy; and Maître Delarue expended so much
 courage on it that he nearly fainted at the lower rungs. The sweat
 trickled down his face and over his hands in great drops.
 
@@ -7946,7 +7921,7 @@ With a few words Dorothy restored his courage.
 
 "You can hear them.... Don't you hear them?"
 
-Maître Delarue could hear nothing. But he set out at a run, breathless
+Maître Delarue could hear nothing. But he set out at a run, breathless
 from the start, mumbling:
 
 "They're after us!... In a minute they'll attack us!"
@@ -7955,7 +7930,7 @@ A side-path led them through thick brushwood to the main path, which
 connected the keep with the clearing in which the solitary oak stood.
 No one behind them.
 
-More confident, Maître Delarue threatened:
+More confident, Maître Delarue threatened:
 
 "The blackguards! At the first house I send a messenger to the nearest
 police station.... Then I mobilize the peasants--with guns, forks and
@@ -7975,7 +7950,7 @@ anything handy. And you, what's your plan?"
 
 "For my children."
 
-Maître Delarue exclaimed:
+Maître Delarue exclaimed:
 
 "Gracious! You've got children?"
 
@@ -7996,7 +7971,7 @@ wish to secure their safety. Fortunately Saint-Quentin is not an idiot."
 
 "Yes, the eldest of the urchins ... an artful lad, cunning as a monkey."
 
-Maître Delarue gave up trying to understand. Besides, nothing was of
+Maître Delarue gave up trying to understand. Besides, nothing was of
 any importance to him but the prospect of being overtaken before he had
 passed that narrow, devilish causeway.
 
@@ -8007,7 +7982,7 @@ should carry such a dangerous paper on me; and after all it's no
 business of mine."
 
 She took the envelope and put it in her purse just as they came into
-the court of the clock. Maître Delarue who could move only with great
+the court of the clock. Maître Delarue who could move only with great
 difficulty, uttered a cry of joy on perceiving his donkey in the act of
 browsing in the most peaceful fashion in the world, at some distance
 from the motor-cycle and the two horses.
@@ -8021,7 +7996,7 @@ went off like an arrow.
 
 Dorothy called out to him:
 
-"Look out, Maître Delarue! The confederates have been warned!"
+"Look out, Maître Delarue! The confederates have been warned!"
 
 The notary heard the words, on the instant leaned back in the saddle,
 and tugged desperately at the reins. But nothing could stop the brute.
@@ -8033,7 +8008,7 @@ whistle had been meant for confederates posted on the mainland at the
 entrance to the peninsula the access to which they were guarding. She
 said to herself:
 
-"In any case if I don't get through, Maître Delarue will; and it is
+"In any case if I don't get through, Maître Delarue will; and it is
 clear that Saint-Quentin will be warned and be on his guard."
 
 The sea, very blue and very calm, had ebbed to right and left, forming
@@ -8047,12 +8022,12 @@ ahead, and a little smoke rose in the air above what must have been the
 steepest point in the path.
 
 There came cries and shouts for help; then silence. Dorothy doubled
-her speed in order to help Maître Delarue; undoubtedly he had been
+her speed in order to help Maître Delarue; undoubtedly he had been
 attacked. But after running for some minutes at such a pace that no
 sound could have reached her ears, she had barely time to spring out of
 the path to get out of the way of the furiously galloping donkey whose
 rider was crouching forward on its back with his arms knotted round its
-neck. Maître Delarue, since his head was glued to the further side of
+neck. Maître Delarue, since his head was glued to the further side of
 its neck, did not even see her.
 
 More anxious than ever, since it was clear that Saint-Quentin and his
@@ -8060,7 +8035,7 @@ comrades would not be warned if she did not succeed in getting through
 the path down the gorge and over the causeway, she started to run
 again. Then she caught sight of the figures of two men on one of the
 high points of the path in front, coming towards her. They were the
-confederates. They had barred the road to Maître Delarue and were now
+confederates. They had barred the road to Maître Delarue and were now
 acting after the manner of beaters.
 
 She flung herself into the bushes, dropped into a hollow full of dead
@@ -8089,7 +8064,7 @@ the children's bags and the usual things.
 
 She returned to the house and this time she entered.
 
-The little room which formed the café and in which stood the zinc
+The little room which formed the café and in which stood the zinc
 counter, was empty. Over-turned benches and chairs lay about the floor.
 On a table stood three glasses, half full, and a bottle.
 
@@ -8184,9 +8159,9 @@ with the two others."
 
 This time the landlady did not refuse to have her bonds untied. As
 soon as she was free she said to Dorothy who wished to dispatch her to
-Périac in search of help:
+Périac in search of help:
 
-"To Périac? Six miles! But, my poor lady, I haven't the strength. The
+"To Périac? Six miles! But, my poor lady, I haven't the strength. The
 best thing you can do is to get there yourself as fast as your legs
 will carry you."
 
@@ -8225,7 +8200,7 @@ kidnapers.
 
 She took her way to the peninsula, mounted the gorge, where she met
 no one, and reached the plateau. As she did so she heard the sound of
-a second report. Some one had fired in the ruins. At whom? At Maître
+a second report. Some one had fired in the ruins. At whom? At Maître
 Delarue? At one of the three young men?
 
 "Ah," she said to herself anxiously. "Perhaps I ought never to have
@@ -8253,7 +8228,7 @@ near the two tied-up horses, the donkey, eating the leaves of a shrub,
 his bridle dragging on the ground, his saddle quite straight on his
 back, his coat shining with sweat.
 
-What has become of Maître Delarue? Had he been able to rejoin the group
+What has become of Maître Delarue? Had he been able to rejoin the group
 of the foreigners? Had his mount thrown him and delivered him into the
 power of the enemy?
 
@@ -8293,7 +8268,7 @@ the steps which descended into the immense nave of the donjon, her
 enemies must be posted. Let her make a few more steps and they would
 capture her.
 
-She stood quite still. She no longer doubted that Maître Delarue
+She stood quite still. She no longer doubted that Maître Delarue
 had been taken, and that, yielding to threats, he had disclosed the
 fact that the second envelope was in her hands, that second envelope
 without which the diamonds of the Marquis de Beaugreval would never be
@@ -8451,7 +8426,7 @@ attitude of provocation."
 Dorothy." He smiled. "We won't talk about that yet. That comes last.
 And the account diamonds. At the present moment I should have been
 the possessor of them if you had not intercepted the indispensable
-document. Enough of obstacles! Maître Delarue has confessed, with a
+document. Enough of obstacles! Maître Delarue has confessed, with a
 revolver at his temple, that he gave you back the second envelope. Give
 it to me."
 
@@ -8501,7 +8476,7 @@ In three of these cells, Errington, Webster, and Dario were stretched
 out, firmly gagged, bound with ropes, which reduced them to the
 condition of mummies and fastened them to the rings. Three men, armed
 with rifles, guarded them. In a fourth cell was the corpse of the false
-Marquis. The fifth contained Maître Delarue and Montfaucon. The child
+Marquis. The fifth contained Maître Delarue and Montfaucon. The child
 was rolled up in a rug. Above a strip of stuff, which hid the lower
 part of his face, his poor eyes, full of tears, smiled at Dorothy.
 
@@ -8855,7 +8830,7 @@ her arms and neck. "Do you understand that nothing can stop it? Help is
 impossible. It's the penalty of defeat. To-day I avenge myself ... and
 at the same time I free myself from you.... When we are separated, I
 shall be able to say to myself: 'Yes, she hurt me, but I do not regret
-it. The dénouement of the adventure effaces everything.'"
+it. The dénouement of the adventure effaces everything.'"
 
 He leant more and more heavily on the young girl's shoulders, and said
 to her with sarcastic joy:
@@ -9121,7 +9096,7 @@ rifle.... What a find! You are a splendid fellow, old chap! Come and be
 kissed again! And tell me how you managed to get to us? I didn't miss
 the little heaps of pebbles that you sowed along the path from the inn.
 But why did you go round the marsh? Did you hope to get to the ruins of
-the château by going along the beach at the foot of the cliffs?"
+the château by going along the beach at the foot of the cliffs?"
 
 "Yes, mummy," replied Saint-Quentin, very proud at being so
 complimented by her, and deeply moved by her kisses.
@@ -9147,18 +9122,18 @@ be no longer face to face with a brute who gripped your wrists and
 sullied you with his abominable leer! But she suddenly broke off in the
 middle of these transports.
 
-"And Maître Delarue? I was forgetting him!"
+"And Maître Delarue? I was forgetting him!"
 
 He was lying at the back of his cell behind a rampart of tall grasses.
 
 "Attend to him! Quick, Saint-Quentin, cut his ropes. Goodness! He has
-fainted. Look here, Maître Delarue, you come to your senses. If not, I
+fainted. Look here, Maître Delarue, you come to your senses. If not, I
 leave you."
 
 "Leave me!" cried the notary, suddenly waking up. "But you've no right!
 The enemy----"
 
-"The enemy has run away, Maître Delarue."
+"The enemy has run away, Maître Delarue."
 
 "He may come back. These are terrible people. Look at the hole their
 chief made in my hat! The donkey finished by throwing me off, just at
@@ -9170,8 +9145,8 @@ bullet."
 
 "No. But I'm suffering from internal pains and bruises."
 
-"That will soon pass off, Maître Delarue. To-morrow there won't be
-anything left, I assure you. Saint-Quentin, I put Maître Delarue in
+"That will soon pass off, Maître Delarue. To-morrow there won't be
+anything left, I assure you. Saint-Quentin, I put Maître Delarue in
 your charge. And yours, too, Montfaucon. Rub him."
 
 She hurried off with the intention of joining her three friends, whose
@@ -9274,7 +9249,7 @@ they drew it up a yard from the deck.
 soldier's cap.
 
 Dorothy recalled with a shudder the prediction she had made to her
-enemy directly after their meeting at the Château de Roborey. She said
+enemy directly after their meeting at the Château de Roborey. She said
 in a low voice:
 
 "Yes, d'Estreicher."
@@ -9354,14 +9329,14 @@ Far away, northwards, towards Brittany, the boat was moving away.
 
        *       *       *       *       *
 
-That same evening, towards nine o'clock, after having intrusted Maître
+That same evening, towards nine o'clock, after having intrusted Maître
 Delarue to the care of the widow Amoureux--all he thought of was
 getting a good night's rest and returning to his office as quickly
 as possible--and after having enjoined on the widow absolute silence
 about the assault of which she had been the victim, Errington and Dario
 harnessed their horses to the caravan. Saint-Quentin led One-eyed
 Magpie behind it. They returned by the stony path up the gorge to the
-ruins of Roche-Périac. Dorothy and the children resumed possession of
+ruins of Roche-Périac. Dorothy and the children resumed possession of
 their lodging. The three young men installed themselves in the cells of
 the tower.
 
@@ -9369,7 +9344,7 @@ Next morning, early, Archibald Webster mounted his motor-cycle. He did
 not return till noon.
 
 "I've come from Sarzeau," he said. "I have seen the monks of the abbey.
-I have bought from them the ruins of Roche-Périac."
+I have bought from them the ruins of Roche-Périac."
 
 "Heavens!" cried Dorothy. "Do you mean to end your days here?"
 
@@ -9409,7 +9384,7 @@ twenty-fourth of July, in the morning, I'm off."
 
 "And to where do we travel?"
 
-"An old Manor in Vendée where, at the end of July, other descendants
+"An old Manor in Vendée where, at the end of July, other descendants
 of the lord of Beaugreval will find themselves gathered together. I'm
 eager to introduce you to our cousins Davernoie and Chagny-Roborey.
 After that you will be at liberty to return here ... to bury yourselves
@@ -9446,7 +9421,7 @@ her courage, her gayety, were so many things that awoke in them an
 astounded admiration. She seemed to them the most natural and the most
 mysterious of creatures. For all that she lavished explanations on them
 and told them all about her childhood, her life as nurse, her life as
-showman, the events at the Château de Roborey and Hillocks Manor,
+showman, the events at the Château de Roborey and Hillocks Manor,
 they could not bring themselves to grasp the fact that she was at once
 the Princess of Argonne and circus-manager, that she was just that,
 manifestly as reserved as she was fanciful, manifestly the daughter
@@ -9492,7 +9467,7 @@ desired were she, Dorothy. Their ancestor Beaugreval could not have
 foreseen for them a more magnificent treasure.
 
 On the morning of the 24th Dorothy gave the signal for their departure.
-They quitted the ruins of Roche-Périac and said good-bye to the riches
+They quitted the ruins of Roche-Périac and said good-bye to the riches
 of the Marquis de Beaugreval.
 
 "All the same," said Dario. "You ought to have searched, cousin
@@ -9511,7 +9486,7 @@ gave performances. Fresh cause for amazement on the part of the three
 foreigners. Dorothy conducting the parade, Dorothy on One-eyed Magpie,
 Dorothy addressing the public, what sparkling and picturesque scenes!
 
-They slept two nights at Nantes, where Dorothy desired to see Maître
+They slept two nights at Nantes, where Dorothy desired to see Maître
 Delarue. Quite recovered from his emotions, the notary welcomed her
 warmly, introduced her to his family, and kept her to lunch.
 
@@ -9646,11 +9621,11 @@ again, Raoul; and as I predicted he has been hanged. Also I met your
 grandfather and Juliet Assire a long way from here. But perhaps we are
 getting along a bit too quickly. First of all there is a most urgent
 duty to fulfill with regard to our three cousins who are bitter enemies
-of the dry régime."
+of the dry régime."
 
 She opened the cupboard and found a bottle of port and some biscuits,
 and as she poured out the wine, she set about relating her expedition
-to Roche-Périac. She told the story quickly and a trifle incoherently,
+to Roche-Périac. She told the story quickly and a trifle incoherently,
 omitting details and getting them in the wrong order, but for the
 most part giving them a comic turn which greatly amused the Count and
 Countess de Chagny.
@@ -9705,7 +9680,7 @@ He said slowly:
 
 "Where?"
 
-"In the ruins of Périac!"
+"In the ruins of Périac!"
 
 She clapped her hands.
 
@@ -9759,7 +9734,7 @@ wrestled so many times and at such length, for ages--she had solved it!
 "But when? At what moment?" cried George Errington. "You never left us!"
 
 "Oh, it goes a long way further back than that. It goes back to my
-visit to the Château de Roborey."
+visit to the Château de Roborey."
 
 "Eh, what? What's that you say?" cried the astounded Count de Chagny.
 
@@ -9777,7 +9752,7 @@ of those who have searched for the treasure, and that I went so far
 as to declare the man who, when concealing a treasure, gave so much
 information about it, ingenuous in the extreme. But he was right, was
 the Marquis de Beaugreval. He could engrave it all over the place,
-on the clock of his château, on the wax of his seals, since to his
+on the clock of his château, on the wax of his seals, since to his
 descendants his motto meant nothing at all."
 
 "If you knew, why didn't you act at once?" said the Countess.
@@ -9867,7 +9842,7 @@ came across something too hard to bore. I had not been mistaken. The
 opening was enlarged and one by one I drew out of it four balls of the
 size of a hazel-nut. All I had to do was to clear off a regular matrix
 of dirt to bring to light four diamonds. Here are three of them. The
-fourth is in pawn with Maître Delarue, who very kindly agreed, after
+fourth is in pawn with Maître Delarue, who very kindly agreed, after
 a good deal of hesitation, and a minute expert examination by his
 jeweler, to lend me the necessary money till to-morrow."
 
@@ -9924,7 +9899,7 @@ medal!"
 "Impossible. There was nothing in the disc I fished up under your eyes.
 It was simply a bait to catch d'Estreicher. Then?"
 
-"When my grandfather came back from his journey to Roche-Périac, where
+"When my grandfather came back from his journey to Roche-Périac, where
 you met him with Juliet Assire, one day I found him weeping in the
 orchard. He was looking at a gold medal, which he let me take from him
 and look at. On it were all the indications you have described. But the
@@ -10023,8 +9998,8 @@ He tore open the letter and read aloud:
     Dario, and you, Raoul, are the veritable heirs of the Marquis de
     Beaugreval, specified in his will. Therefore the fourth diamond is
     yours. Webster will be delighted to go to Nantes to-morrow to give
-    Maître Delarue a check for three hundred thousand francs and bring
-    you back the diamond. I am sending to Maître Delarue at the same
+    Maître Delarue a check for three hundred thousand francs and bring
+    you back the diamond. I am sending to Maître Delarue at the same
     time as the receipt which he signed, the necessary instructions.
 
     "I will confess, Raoul, that I felt a little disappointed yesterday
@@ -10084,363 +10059,4 @@ Behind, all alone, Dorothy--Princess of Argonne and rope-dancer.
 
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