You see, M.de Canaples--" "Who ?" Her voice rang sharp as the crack of a pistol.
"Eh?
M.de Canaples." "Was it he whom you killed ?" From her tone, and the eager, strained expression of her face, it was not difficult to read that some mighty interest of hers was involved in my reply.

It needed not the low moan that burst from her companion to tell me so.
"As I have said, Madame, it is possible that he is not dead--nay, even that he will not die.

For the rest, since you ask the question, my opponent was, indeed, M.de Canaples--Eugene de Canaples." Her face went deadly white, and she sank back in her seat as if every nerve in her body had of a sudden been bereft of power, whilst she of the fair hair burst into tears.
A pretty position was this for me!--luckily it endured not.

The girl roused herself from her momentary weakness, and, seizing the cord, she tugged it violently.

The coach drew up.
"Alight, sir," she hissed--"go! I wish to Heaven that I had left you to the vengeance of the people." Not so did I; nevertheless, as I alighted: "I am sorry, Madame, that you did not," I answered.