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MATTERS GROWN COMPLICATED.
During these little events other little events were going on in Havre, which caused Modeste to forget her present uneasiness.

Dumay went down to Havre early in the morning, and soon discovered that no architect had been in town the day before.

Furious at Butscha's lie, which revealed a conspiracy of which he was resolved to know the meaning, he rushed from the mayor's office to his friend Latournelle.
"Where's your Master Butscha ?" he demanded of the notary, when he saw that the clerk was not in his place.
"Butscha, my dear fellow, has gone to Paris.

He heard some news of his father this morning on the quays, from a Swedish sailor.