CHAPTER 7: In Paris Again.
"You have indeed done well, Monsieur Kennedy," the baron said, when Desmond finished his story.
"Now, let us see to my daughter.

Her maid is attending on her.

She fainted when the fight began.

She is not of a fainting sort, but the trials of the last few weeks, and her belief that de la Vallee was killed, have very much upset her." "No wonder," Desmond said.

"It must have been terrible, indeed, to lose her lover, and to know that she was again in the power of that villain.
"And you, Baron; how did you escape the fate that befell the rest of your convoy ?" "We had ridden close up to the tree, when suddenly there was a discharge of firearms.