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ON leaving Marcel, Baudoin, after obtaining permission to keep watch over the laboratory, had gone out on to the main road. It was dark. Taking his pipe, he filled it with tobacco, then halting near the pillar which served for Laforêt's correspondence, he struck a match. By the light he examined the plaster, and discovered the following inscription in red pencil, "This evening. Nine. " The old soldier lit his pipe, looked at his watch, and muttered to himself-
"Nine o'clock to-night. At last! I will go and wait for him."