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NEWS FROM FRANCE

For the next three days the impatience of the public met with nothing but disappointment. The police were reticent, -- more reticent far than usual, -- and the papers, powerless to add to the facts already published, had little but conjectures to offer.
The hunt for Madame Duclos continued, joined in now by the general public. But for all the efforts made, aided by a careful search through her entire baggage, there was as little known concerning her as on the morning of her disappearance.