"It is loathly--it is horrible--it is necromancy--beyond belief! Why, oh, why were we ever driven to that horrible Chateau Larouge! Why could not fate have spared the Villa de Carjorac?
It could not have happened then!" "Villa de Carjorac?
That was the name of the baron's residence, I believe.

I remember reading in the newspapers some five or six weeks ago that it was destroyed by fire, which originated--nobody knew how--in the apartments of the late baroness in the very dead of the night.

I thought at the time it read suspiciously like the work of an incendiary, although nobody hinted at such a thing.

The Chateau Larouge I also have a distinct memory of, as an old historic property in the neighbourhood of St.Cloud.Speaking from past experience, I know that, although it is in such a state of decay, and supposed to be uninhabitable, it has, in fact, often been occupied at a period when the police and the public believed it to be quite empty.

Gentlemen of the Apache persuasion have frequently made it a place of retreat.