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LA BOULAYE DISCHARGES A DEBT.
Along the northern side of the Chateau ran a terrace bordered by a red sandstone balustrade, and below this the Italian garden, so called perhaps in consequence of the oddly clipped box-trees, its only feature that suggested Italy.

At the far end of this garden there was a strip of even turf that might have been designed for a fencing ground, and which Caron knew of old.

Thither he led Captain Juste, and there in the pale sunshine of that February morning they awaited the arrival of the Vicomte and his sponsor.
But the minutes went by and still they waited-five, ten, fifteen minutes elapsed, yet no one came.

Juste was on the point of returning within to seek the reason of this delay when steps sounded on the terrace above.
But they were accompanied by the rustle of a gown, and presently it was Mademoiselle who appeared before them.