The American Marquis by Nick Carter — page 29: what you’re looking at

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THE AMERICAN MARQUIS. 95 At the right hand was a door. On the same side near | the other end of the saloon was another door. Opposite where he stood was a double door opening into the other end of the saloon. Coldly Jacques noted all these details. “Tt is the same. Stepping forward a few paces, he stood still and again looked around. _ € Ay! I were a fool to doubt it. Nevertheless I will go> on to the end.” fie opened the door at his right and walked into a small, square chamber. | A half-stifled groan, as if it had but barely escaped the iron grasp of his stern soul, broke from his lips as he en- tered this apartment. He scarcely looked about Hes and almost quickened that measured pace of his as he passed through it into a hall. Across the hall he went, and, opening a door, entered a large room of octagonal shape. | ‘Yes, every detail coincides, and had I not already been sure, my doubts must now have fled. 3 There I stood, there she. He there, they there. Ican see it as plainly now as then. I hear the voices, subdued and low. ““Oh, Heaven! I cannot go through that night again. Let me hence. ‘“Not so. I must stay. I must rehearse that scene. Not once, but again and again, until this, the last of all, shall fall like all things else on my flinty heart withon calling out one single spark of human emotion. | ‘< Yes, there I, there she, there he. There, there, there. Now the words. So. ‘‘Now to the square chamber.” CHAPTER VII. THE OATH IN THE SQUARE CHAMBER. A hard light glistened i in the gray eyes of the asslener g | assistant as he walked into the square chamber. But as he stood in the middle of the room it was evident (eX 0) 71 Ebooks com. .