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202 SHALED LIPS. ences with Madame Sauval he expressed himself differently, and did not hesitate to say that his heart trouble had made great progress. At this time the invalid was very loath to leave his room or the reclining chair in Jenny’s little parlor. fis temper was more aggravated and his jealousy be- came of a violence all the more fatal as he con- cealed it most carefully. Without letting it be seen, each visit that Keme- neff paid them caused him extreme suffering. The prince was treated so familiarly in the house that he never thought of paying any more regard to the © frequency of his visits thanif he had lived ina neighboring hamlet. The sick man exhausted him- self, unknown to all, in watching every word and gesture of his guest. More than once, when Serge was talking with his wife, seated upon one of the rustic seats before the house, Godefroid would con- ceal himself behind a curtain, and while they believed him to be quietly reading he was restlessly watching them. _ The letters that Jenny received from Algeria and those that she continued to write in her husband’s name were to the very last simply harmless mani- festations. The unhappy man would shut himself up in his room to read and re-read them and scru- tinize every line, trying to discover some hidden meaning. He even studied it with a magnifying glass to see if there was not some cabalistic sign, and finding none he was still more unhappy yet. GOmichboo KH (E(0)