Our story thus far: Fourteen-year-old Ned Arnheim has been left an orphan by the death of his father, murdered beneath the Eiffel Tower. Ned attends the funeral at Père-Lachaise Cemetery where he is accosted by a man on horseback named Corbeau, who threatens his life. Then a mysterious beauty named Laura Cheveley insists upon taking him under her wing.
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THREE
The confidence that allows one to believe.