It isn't playing the game--do you think so, messieurs ?" he added to the crowd which had grown in numbers.

At that moment a man came running from the en trance towards Carnac.

It was Denzil.
"A letter for you, an important letter," he kept crying as he came nearer.

He got the letter into Carnac's hands.
"Read it at once, m'sieu'," Denzil said urgently.

Carnac saw the handwriting was Junia's, and he tore open the letter, which held the blue certificate of the marriage with Luzanne.