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The Chink in the Armour

CHAPTER III
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It is called the Villa du Lac.

Is Madame thinking of going to Lacville instead of to Switzerland ?" Sylvia shook her head.

"Oh, no! But Madame Wolsky is there to-day, and I should have gone with her if I had been ready when she came down.

It has turned so hot that I feel a few hours in the country would be pleasant, and I am quite likely to meet her, for I suppose Lacville is not a very large place, M.Girard ?" The hotel-keeper hesitated; he found it really difficult to give a true answer to this simple question.
"Lacville ?" he repeated; "well--Dame! Lacville is Lacville! It is not like anything Madame has ever seen.

On that I would lay my life.


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