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The Silent House

CHAPTER XXVIII
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What more did the Count reveal to you, Mrs.Vrain ?--the conspiracy ?" "Yes.

He said he'd found Mark hiding at Salisbury, half mad with morphia, and had taken him up to Mrs.Clear's, where it seems he went mad altogether, so they locked him up as her husband in a lunatic asylum.

Ferruci also told me that he had seen Michael Clear on the stage, and that as he was so like Mark, and was likely to die of drink and consumption, he got him to play the part of Mark in Geneva Square, under the name of Berwin.

Mrs.Clear visited her husband there by climbing over a back fence, and getting down a cellar, somehow." "I know that," said Lucian.

"It was Mrs.Clear's shadow I saw on the blind.


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