hangdog look. Nevertheless, she was still rather doubtful when

Labordette appeared. He was very white.

"Well?" she asked in a low voice.

"Bloody well smashed up!" he replied simply.

And he shrugged his shoulders. That Vandeuvres was a mere child!

She made a bored little gesture.

That evening at the Bal Mabille Nana obtained a colossal success.

When toward ten o'clock she made her appearance, the uproar was