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Supreme Visions
THE exhibition of the following day was preceded by two important pieces of news which appeared in the evening papers. A group of financiers had offered Theodore Massignac the sum of ten million francs in consideration of Noel Dorgeroux's secret and the right to work the amphitheatre. Theodore Massignac was to give them his answer next day.
But, at the last moment, a telegram from the south of France announced that the maid-of-all-work who had nursed Massignac in his house at Toulouse, a few weeks before, now declared that her master's illness was feigned and that Massignac had left the house on several occasions, each time carefully concealing his absence from all the neighbours. Now one of these absences synchronized with the murder of Noel Dorgeroux. The woman's ac
