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THE new tiger, or, as he is called in the kitchen, the "tempory tiger," takes his place, on the morning after Lady Londersdon's Wednesday, behind the Count de Marolles' cab, as that gentleman drives into the City.
There is little augury to be drawn from the pale smooth face of Raymond de Marolles, though Signor Mosquetti's revelation has made his position rather a critical one. Till now he has ruled Valerie with a high hand; and though never conquering the indomitable spirit of the proud Spanish woman, he has at least forced that spirit to do the will of his. But _now_, now that she knows the trick put upon her -- now that she knows that the man she so deeply adored did not betray her, but died the victim of another's treachery -- that the blood in which she has steeped her soul was the blood of the innocent, -- what if now, in her desperation and despair, she dares all, and reveals all; what then?