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It was a four-fold screen of elaborately carved oak behind which Musgrave and Primrose were hiding, so that they could see pretty well all that was going on through the interstices formed by the hinges.
They saw Beaucaire and Phasy standing coolly there as if the whole place belonged to them, and as if they had not the slightest fear of being disturbed.