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CHAPTER III EXTRA-LUCID
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This last blow re-doubled the uneasiness of Count and Countess; and they took counsel in a low voice for a moment with their cousins d'Estreicher and Raoul Davernoie.
Saint-Quentin on hearing Dorothy reveal the events in the ravine and the hiding-place of the man in the blouse had fallen back among the cushions of the great easy chair on which he was sitting. She was going mad! To set them on the trail of the man in the blouse was to set them on their own trail, his and Dorothy's. What madness!
She, however, in the midst of all this excitement and anxiety remained wholly calm. She appeared to be following a quite definite course with her goal clearly in view, while the others, without her guidance, stumbled in a panic.
"Mademoiselle," said the Countess, "your revelations have upset us considerably1. They show how extraordinarily2 acute you are; and I cannot thank you enough for having given us this warning."
"You have treated me so kindly3, madame," she replied, "that I am only too delighted to have been of use to you."
"Of immense use to us," agreed the Countess. "And I beg you to make the service complete."
"How?"
"By telling us what you know."
"I don't know any more."
"But perhaps you could learn more?"
"In what way?"
The Countess smiled:
"By means of that skill in divination4 of which you were telling us a little while ago."
"And in which you do not believe, madame."
"But in which I'm quite ready to believe now."
Dorothy bowed.
"I'm quite willing.... But these are experiments which are not always successful."
"Let's try."
"Right. We'll try. But I must ask you not to expect too much."
She took a handkerchief from Saint-Quentin's pocket and bandaged her eyes with it.
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