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out of our calculations There reed his shoulders--"Mlle Celie"

Hanaud reached out for the arette

"Let us take first the maid, Helene Vauquier Forty years old, a

Normandy peasant woman--they are not bad people, the Normandy

peasants, monsieur--avaricious, no doubt, but on the whole honest

andof Helene Vauquier,

monsieur See!" and he took up a sheet of paper frothwise, written upon only on the inside

"I have some details here Our police systeland Helene Vauquier has served

Mme Dauvray for seven years She has been the confidential friend

rather than thethose

seven years how ht's crime? She was found chloroformed and bound There is

no doubt that she was chloroformed Upon that point Dr Peytin is

quite, quite certain He saw her before she recovered

consciousness She was violently sick on awakening She sank again

into unconsciousness She is only now in a natural sleep Besides

those people, there is Mlle Celie Of her,of her She comes suddenly to Aix

as the coirl

How did she become the companion of Mme Dauvray?"