Beyond the group guards the garden ran transmitted orders. Firefighters had appeared, those firefighters who, according to public rumor, magically seeped through the walls of the Casino to take players who fell in the rooms.

This time they needed the table. The curious aside to make way for an extraordinary novelty. A hired carriage was moving through the terraces, a place closed to vehicles.

Lubimoff saw how the Duchess suddenly rose above the heads of the crowd. Had just climbed into the carriage and remained standing there, staring expressionless face and a sleepwalker. Perhaps he had done this without reflection, perhaps the military doctor asked her to go, thinking of the family of the patient. Several men in uniform lifted the lifeless body of the officer.

He continued his snoring heartbreaking.

And then, before the crowd could not see with their eyes aghast, Alicia proceeded as if he were alone. Just drop into the seat, and made to put her body on her knees like a corpse. She herself, as she held his arm, turned to the other the howling head, making rest on one shoulder.

The carriage started slowly toward the hotel of the officers, followed by a large part of the public. The doctor was on foot, recommending the driver to go away slowly.