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The Trampling of the Lilies

CHAPTER XII
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Stable door and porte-cochere alike stood open.

He turned suddenly and made for his coat.

Seizing it, he thrust his hand in one pocket after another.

At last: "Treachery!" he cried, and letting the garment fall to the ground, he turned upon La Boulaye a face so transfigured by anger that it looked little like the usually good-humoured countenance of Captain Tardivet "My keys have been stolen.

By St.Guillotine, I'll have the thief hanged." "Did anybody know that the keys were in your pocket ?" asked the ingenuous Caron.
"I told you last night." "Yes, yes; I remember that.


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