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"Yes I suppose so," replied the elder woly affair was being ruood deal of apprehension, for he feared that his name would be associated with that of the mysterious Mademoiselle Evidently one or other of the servants at the Villa Amette had been indiscreet

At that moment, in his private rooier was carefully perusing a dossier of official papers which had been brought to hi, thin, Swiss cigar--his favorite sold-ri a document which would certainly have been of considerable interest to Hugh Henfrey and his friend Walter Brock could they have seen it

Upon the pale yellow paper werein French--a carbon copy evidently

It was headed: "Republique Francaise Department of Herault Prefecture of Police Bureau of the Director of Police Reference Number 20197B," and was dated nearly a year before

It commenced: "Copy of an 'information' in the archives of the Prefecture of the Departnot, or Leullier, now passing under the na at the Villa Amette at Monte Carlo

"The woman in question was born in 1884 at Nuhter of one Doctor Rigaud, a noted toxicologist of the Faculty of Medicine, and curator of the University Library At the age of seventeen, after her father's death, she became a school teacher at a small school in the Rue Morceau, and at nineteenscoundrel who posed as being well off, but as afterwards proved to be an expert international thief, a erous thieves who committed robberies in the European express trains

"This fact was unknown to the girl, therefore at first all went smoothly, until the wife discovered the truth and left him She then joined the chorus of a revue at the Jardin de Paris, where she land, where she married him, and they resided in the county of Northae sum of money In the meantime Leullier had been arrested by the Italian police for a daring robbery with violence in a train traveling between Milan and Turin and been sentenced to ten years on the penal island of Gorgona His wife, hearing of this froh she was unaware of it, was following the same profession as her husband, returned to France She rented an apartment in Paris, and afterwards played at Monte Carlo, where she won a considerable sum, with the proceeds of which she purchased the Villa Amette, which she now occupies each season"