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42 "Yes, I will tell him to wait," mechanically echoed the dwarf.

Irène went to a public pension where she had once seen Doctor Satiani. Though he boarded there, he had not been seen that morning.

"It is yet early," observed the Madame of whom inquiry was made. "Come in and wait, likely he will be here soon."

Irène entered the house and waited until all the boarders had come and gone; but Doctor Satiani was not among them. Although it still looked early on account of a storm that was beginning to gather in the clouds, darkening the morning light, Irène felt that it was growing late, and that something had to be done at once.

"He has never yet missed a meal," said the Madame.

"I can wait no longer," and arising, she left instructions as to where the doctor should be sent if he came for his breakfast. She was undecided whether to return to the office or to the house where poor Madeline lay. “What good to go back without help," she said to herself, and turned in the direction of the