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That is also a pretty tale."
"More interesting than the other," said Montevarchi. "These side lights
of genealogy, these stray rivulets of royal races, if I may so
poetically call them, possess an absorbing interest for the student. I
will make a note of it."
"Of course, I do not vouch for the truth of a single word in either
story," observed the young man. "Of the two the first is the less
improbable. I have met her and talked to her and she is certainly not
less than five and twenty years old. She may be more. In any case she is
too old to have been just let out of a convent."
"Perhaps she has been loose for some years," observed Sant' Ilario,
speaking of her as though she were a dangerous wild animal.
"We should have heard of her," objected the other. "She has the sort of
personality which is noticed anywhere and which makes itself felt."
"Then you incline to the belief that she dropped the Signor Aragno
quietly overboard in the neighbourhood of the equator?"
"The real story may be quite different from either of those I have told
you.


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