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"‘The breath of death! " Dennis repeated, awestruck. "God save us, what's that? Are you trying to say that the French girl is in Orbit's house, _dead_?"
"We'll soon see! " Shaking off the Chinese butler's grip McCarty dashed up the steps and in at the door, with Dennis just behind and Ching Lee bringing up the rear, chanting a weird refrain of lamentation.