16/26 I needed money to spend at the taverns, and you would not give it to me. I killed him in order to get the money he might have about him. Adieu! This very day all will be over with me.' Before I had sufficiently recovered from the shock to think of seizing Julio, he had disappeared. Probably, to-day--" "Heavens!" exclaimed Simon Turchi, "I hear Miss Van de Werve." "For the love of God, not a word in her presence," said Mr.Van de Werve. She had seen the officers at the door, and she seemed to inquire of her father the cause of their presence. |