Chapter 18 No.18

THE next morning, towards eleven, Mlle. Clara Laneret, better known in night cabarets by her nickname of rlandaise, bent over the banister of her staircase to watch someone go down.

"Eh, monsieur!" she exclaimed suddenly, discreetly recalling him. "You will come again, wo you?"

The "monsieur"-that is to say, M. Eusèbe Raindal, member of the I