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shoulder. CHAPTER VI GENDARMES AND ETHER When the gendarmes came hurrying to sixty-four Boulevard Saint-Germain, Marjory was the only one in the house cool enough to meet them at the door. She quieted them with a smile. "It is too bad, messieurs," she apologized, because it did seem too bad to put them to so much trouble for nothing. "It was only a disagreeable incident between friends, and it is closed. Madame Courcy lost her head." "But we were told it was an assassination," the lieutenant informed her. He was a very smart-looking lieutenant, and he noticed her eyes at once. "To have an assassination it is necessary to have some one assassinated, is it not?" inquired Marjory.
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"But yes, certainly." "Then truly it is a mistake, because the two gentlemen went off together in a cab." The lieutenant took out a memorandum-book. "Is that necessary?" asked Marjory anxiously. "A report must be made." "It was nothing, I assure you," she insisted. "It was what in America is called a false alarm." "You are American?" inquired the lieutenant, twisting his mustache. "It is a compliment to my French that you did not know," smiled Marjory. It was also a compliment to the lieutenant that she smiled. At least, it was so that he interpreted it. "The report is only a matter of routine," he informed her. "If mademoiselle will kindly give me her name." "But the newspapers!" she exclaimed. "They make so much of so little."