"I think I begin to smell the toasting of the cheese.

Of course, when the villa was burnt out, Madame la Comtesse insisted that, as the _fiancee_ of her brother, Mlle.

de Carjorac must make her home at the Chateau until the necessary repairs could be completed; and, of course, the baron had to go with her ?" "Yes," admitted Ailsa.

"The baron accepted--Athalie would not have allowed him to decline had he wished to--so we all three went there and have been residing there ever since.

On the night after our arrival an alarming, a horrifying thing occurred.