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After Dark

CHAPTER I
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(4.) Citizen Superintendent Danville quits Paris for a short time.

The office of watching Trudaine is then taken out of the hands of the undersigned, and is confided to his comrade, Magloire .-- Signed, PICARD.

Countersigned, LOMAQUE." Having read so far, the police agent placed his papers on the writing-table, waited a moment for orders, and, receiving none, went out.

No change came over the sadness and perplexity of Lomaque's face.
He still beat his nails anxiously on the writing-table, and did not even look at the second agent as he ordered the man to read his report.
Magloire produced some slips of paper precisely similar to Picard's and read from them in the same rapid, business-like, unmodulated tones: "Affair of Trudaine.

Minutes continued.


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