Two bullets struck our unfortunate comrade in the head and the chest, four went wide, and the fifth grazed Nanteuil below the left breast." "Is Nanteuil wounded ?" "Only slightly." "Will Monsieur de Ligny be arrested ?" "The affair is to be hushed up, and rightly so.

I have, however, the best authority for what I say." In the carriages, too, the actresses were engaged in spreading various reports.

Some felt sure it was a case of murder; others, one of suicide.
"He shot himself in the chest with a revolver," asserted Falempin.

"But he only succeeded in wounding himself.

The doctor said that if he had been attended to in time he might have been saved.