The
Malfaits are evidently very angry with me! And yet--and yet, you know in
England it's the first thing that people do."
Count Paul laughed kindly.
"It is a matter of absolutely no consequence. But you see, you never
quite understand, my dear friend, that Lacville is a queer place, and
that here, at any rate, the hotel-keepers are rather afraid of the
police. I was even glad that the Commissioner did not ask to look over
_your_ boxes, and did not exact a passport from you!"
More seriously he added, "But I see that you are dreadfully anxious about
Madame Wolsky, and I myself will communicate with the Paris police about
the matter. It is, as you say, possible, though not probable, that she
met with an accident after leaving you."
CHAPTER XVII
A long week went by, and still no news, no explanation of her abrupt
departure from Lacville, was received from Anna Wolsky; and the owners
of the Pension Malfait were still waiting for instructions as to what
was to be done with Madame Wolsky's luggage, and with the various little
personal possessions she had left scattered about her room.
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