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THE LANE OF MANY TURNINGS.
If John Turner expected Colville to bring Loo Barebone with him to the Rue Lafayette he was, in part, disappointed.

Colville arrived in a hired carriage, of which the blinds were partially lowered.
The driver had been instructed to drive into the roomy court-yard of the house of which Turner's office occupied the first floor.

Carriages frequently waited there, by the side of a little fountain which splashed all day and all night into a circular basin.
Colville descended from the carriage and turned to speak to Loo, who was left sitting within it.

Since the unfortunate night at the Hotel Gemosac, when they had been on the verge of a quarrel, a certain restraint had characterised their intercourse.