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 VIRGO, THE VIRGIN

HE château of Montarbre was a gloomy-looking old building, with narrow windows, and immensely thick walls. It had been built in times of war and danger, when no one was safe unless a good, strong barrier stood between him and the world outside, and when air and daylight were less important than shelter from the enemy. It had survived the fierce attack of armed peasants in the days of the revolution, and had not suffered much from the slow destroyer, Time. Its owners had always been men who clung to the traditions of the past, and 166