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AN UNDERSTANDING.
Loo Barebone went back to the Chateau de Gemosac after those travels in Provence which terminated so oddly on board "The Last Hope," at anchor in the Garonne River.
The Marquis received him with enthusiasm and a spirit of optimism which age could not dim.
"Everything is going a merveille!" he cried.

"In three months we shall be ready to strike our blow--to make our great coup for France.

The failure of Turner's bank was a severe check, I admit, and for a moment I was in despair.

But now we are sure that we shall have the money for Albert de Chantonnay's Beauvoir estate by the middle of January.