(T&G News Service): Her escape was short-lived.  The chloroform had already drained the young woman's ability to fight.  The masked woman easily caught Morgane and put the chloroform soaked handkerchief over her face.  Blackness descended as she inhaled fumes.

The masked woman could have grabbed the pearls and left, but she didn't.

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