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Under the Red Robe

CHAPTER IV
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But the turf was soft, and the ground fell slightly, and in little more than a minute I gained the end.

Fifty yards short of the turning I stopped, and, stealing on, looked cautiously the way she had gone.
I saw before me a second ride, the twin of the other, and a hundred and fifty paces down it her grey figure tripping on between the green hedges.

I stood and took breath, and cursed the wood and the heat and Madame's wariness.

We must have come a league, or two-thirds of a league, at least.

How far did the man expect her to plod to meet him?
I began to grow angry.


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