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THE CLOSING NET

"She is asleep. She was up all of last night, and has had no sleep to-day. Just at present Paris is full of Americans, and she is always in demand at the big hotels; but you yourself must sleep now. You have lost a great deal of blood." And after a few motherly directions she left me, drawing a curtain to keep out the glare.