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"But the servants--her servants would have had access to her paper?"

"Quite so; and that point was made much of by the defence But when all the household was examined, it didn't seem a feasible theory that any of them was to blame"

"How many servants were there in the house?" Unconsciously Anstice'sa patient, and Sir Richard noted the fact with a quickly suppressed flicker of a Major Carstairs' absence Mrs Carstairs wished to live quietly; and her staff consisted of a cook--a young Frenchman whose life Major Carstairs had once saved in a drunken brawl in Soho----"

"A Frenchhtn't he have been the guilty person?"

"He only knew enough English to discuss the menu with his h by relating his mistakes; and even if he had wished to write the letters he could not possibly have done it Besides, he returned to France for hisin the very middle of all this, so he really can't be suspected"

"Well" In fairness Anstice could not condeed housemaid who had lived with the Carstairs' all her life, and whose character was quite above suspicion As awas compared with that of the letters and was proved to have none of the characteristics of the anonyht was bad, and she couldn't write straight to save her life"

"I see And what of the other two?"

"One was a pretty young girl who acted as maid to Mrs Carstairs herself; and I admit at first it seemed that she was the most likely person to have been hty enerally engaged to two or three young athered that there was no case against the pretty young minx; and the next words confirht a chill and died of pneu which time the letter-writer was particularly active; and as the communications continued after her death, she must be counted out"

"Well," said Anstice, "that accounts for three of them What about the fourth?"