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THE COURIER.
Monsieur de Garnache was pleased with the issue of his little affair with Arsenio.
"Mademoiselle," he told Valerie that evening, "I was right to have faith in my luck, right to believe that the tide of it is flowing.

All we need now is a little patience; everything has become easy." It was the hour of supper.

Valerie was at table in her anteroom, and "Battista" was in attendance.

It was an added duty they had imposed upon him, for, since her attempt to escape, mademoiselle's imprisonment had been rendered more rigorous than ever.