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CHAPTER VII
Pani Elzen met Svirski with a troubled and excited face; her eyes were dry, but reddened, as if from fever, and full of impatience.
"Have you received no letter?" inquired she, hurriedly.
"No. I have received nothing but your telegram. What a misfortune!"
"I thought that perhaps he had written to you."
"No. When did it happen?"
"This morning a shot was heard in his chamber. A servant ran in and found him lifeless."
"Was it here in the hotel?"
"No. Fortunately he moved to Condamine yesterday."
"What was the cause?"
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