813: The Adventures of Arsène Lupin - The Second Life of Arsène Lupin

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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin - The Mystery of the Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc... Raymond strained to hear. The noise was repeated twice, clearly enough to distinguish it from the indistinct sounds that make up the great silence of the night. But it was still too faint to tell whether it came from near or far—from within the walls of the large country house, or from outside—from among those mysterious hollows in the garden. She rose gently. The window was half open, so she opened it fully. Moonlight spread serenely over meadows and woods, from which emerged the scattered ruins of the old monastery, the broken columns, along with the distorted arches of buildings, fragments of arcades, and scraps of wall buttresses. Everything was enveloped in a gentle breeze, which moved silently through the still, leafless branches of the trees and stirred the small buds on the bushes.