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THE TRIAL. T HE parlor was well lighted, and Balsamo entering could see the grim air of the five men who kept their seats until he was before them and bowed. Then they all rose and returned the salu…
MAN AND GOD. N OTHING had meanwhile changed in the other part of the house. But the old wizard had seen Balsamo enter his study and carry away the remains of Lorenza, which had recalled him to life.…
THE FAINTING FITS. A NDREA was in her room, giving a final touch to her rebellious curls when she heard the step of her father, who appeared as she crossed the sill of the antechamber with a book un…
THE AVENGER. F OR a month Gilbert wandered round the sick girl’s lodgings, inventing work in the gardens in their neighborhood so that he could keep his eye constantly on the windows. In this time h…
THE MISUNDERSTANDING. T HE day was closing and Dr. Louis, who was trying to read a medical tract as he came along in the twilight to the chapel, was vexed at the interposition of an opaque body to i…
TWO SORROWS. P HILIP was ignorant of Balsamo’s address but he remembered that of the lady who he said had harbored Andrea. The Marchioness of Savigny’s maid supplied him with the directions, and it …
THE GUILTY ONE. D RIVEN by Fritz, the count’s excellent team covered the ground swiftly. Philip was silent if not patient during the ride, for he felt that he was not the superior power which could …
FATHER AND SON. T HE knight of Redcastle knew he should find his father at their Paris Lodgings. Since his rupture with Richelieu, he found life insupportable at Versailles and he tried to conquer t…
GILBERT’S PROJECT. F OR a week that Gilbert had been in flight from Trianon, he lived in the woods with no other food than the wild roots, plants and fruit. At the last gasp, he went into town to Ro…
DECEMBER THE FIFTEENTH. I N the morning after a sleepless night, Gilbert went to Count Fenix’s. The count was lounging on a sofa as though he, too, had not slept during the night. “Oh, it is our bri…
