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the arm, but it moved with a frightful stiffness which could not deceive asick-nurse. She screamed aloud; then running to the door exclaimed:
"Help! help!"
"What do you mean?" asked d'Avrigny, at the foot of the stairs, it being the hour he usually visited her.
The Poison.
"What do you mean?" asked Villefort, rushing from his room. "Doctor, do you hear them call for help?"
"Yes, yes; let us hasten up; it was in Valentine's room."
But before the doctor and the father could reach the room, the servants who were on the same floor had entered, and seeing Valentine
