‘Where is M. le Marquis?’ demanded M. de Vervainville, interrupting an enchanting moment upon discovery of his son’s absence from the salon.
A search, a hurry, a scare,—music stopped, wine-glasses at the buffet laid down untouched, ices rejected, fear and anxiety upon every face. M. le Marquis is not in the salons, nor in the tutor’s apartment, nor in his own. The grounds are searched, ‘Hervé’ and ‘M. le Marquis’ ringing through the silence unanswered. His boat was found and the impress of small footsteps upon the wet bank. M. le Marquis de Saint-Laurent and Baron de Vervainville was drowned.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Some minor inconsistencies and obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
On page 184, ‘He will write to you to Paris’ has been changed ‘He will write to you in Paris’
On page 217: A duplicate ‘for’ has been removed in ‘The less reason have they for for a vestige of belief in man’