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The Yellow Crayon

CHAPTER XXXIV
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Lucille, after all, do you wonder that the police are looking for a woman in black with an ermine toque?
What a mercy you wore a thick veil!" She sat down suddenly.
"This is hideous," she said.
"Think it over," he said, "step by step.

It is wonderful how all the incidents dovetail into one another." "Too wonderful," she cried.

"It sounds like some vile plot to incriminate me.

How much had you to do with this, Prince ?" "Don't be a fool!" he answered roughly.

"Can't you see for yourself that your arrest would be the most terrible thing that could happen for us?
Even Sachs might break down in cross-examination, and you--well, you are a woman, and you want to live.


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