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“What do you want here?” asked Chick.
“You are the famous Nick Carter?” asked the girl, speaking in French, a language which Chick understood perfectly.
“Why are you here?” continued Chick. “And why were you here a short time ago?”
“I was not here a short time ago,” was the reply, “and I come now at the command of my mistress. Why should you say I was here a short time ago, when I have been with my sick mistress all morning?”
CHAPTER III.
COVERING CLUES.
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“And your mistress is Mrs. Maynard?” asked Chick.
“Of a certainty.”
Chick saw that the girl was antagonistic, but he did not show what his thoughts were. The only way to secure information from the girl would be to make friends with her. He asked:
“How is Mrs. Maynard this morning?”
“She is very ill, sir.”
“It is a terrible affair,” said Chick. “It is a wonder that all the people in the house were not murdered in their beds.”
“I shall be afraid to stay here now,” said the girl, still speaking in French.
“You surely are not going away?” asked Chick. “What will Mrs. Maynard do? She surely can’t get a companion like you—young, devoted, and attractive—every day.”