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EARLY the next morning a gentleman rings the bell of the porter's lodge belonging to the mansion of the Marquis de Cevennes, and on seeing the porter addresses him thus --
"The lady's-maid of Mademoiselle Valerie de Cevennes is perhaps visible at this early hour?"