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My surprise at this last piece of information could not pass unnoticed. Both the hall-porter and his assistant were evidently well-trained servants, but they looked curiously at me and then exchanged rapid glances with one another. I recovered myself, however, in an instant.
"This Count de Cartienne," I asked, "is he young? I think I know him. Rather dark and thin and short? Is that he?"