Then the thing appeared, I suppose ?" "Yes; but not before something equally terrible had happened.

I saw the door of the countess's room open; I saw the countess herself come out, accompanied by the man who up till then I had believed, like everybody else, was her brother." "And who is not her brother, after all ?" "No, he is not.

Theirs is a closer tie.

I saw her kiss him.

I saw her go with him to an angle of the corridor, lift a rug, and raise a trap in the floor." "Hullo! Hullo!" ejaculated Cleek.