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THE DESERTED HOUSE
Next day, Gilberte received the following letter from Maître Dufornéril, her solicitor at Dieppe:
"Mademoiselle,
"I have just received your telegram asking me where we stand in the matter of our enquiries. I have already given you the information which I obtained regarding your life and that of your parents at Liverpool, although this, unfortunately, told us nothing new. M. Kellner, which was the name under which your father made his fortune at Liverpool, left none but pleasant memories behind him in the commercial world of that city. On the other hand, no one knew anything of his private life or of his antecedents.
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