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"Will monsieur let me see?" asked Wethermill, and he took the case

in his hands "Yes," he said "Mlle Celie's ear-drops," and he

handed the case back with a thoughtful air

It was the first tiation To Ricardo the reason was clear Harry Wetheriven those ear-drops to Celia Hanaud replaced the

case and turned round

"There is nothing more for us to see here," he said "I suppose

that no one has been allowed to enter the room?" And he opened the

door

"No one except Helene Vauquier," replied the Conant at so obvious a piece of carelessness Even

Wetherain

"Oho, the maid!" he said "Then she has recovered!"

"She is still weak," said the Coht it was

necessary that we should obtain at once a description of what

Celie Harland hen she left the house I spoke to M Fleuriot

about it, and he gaveHelene Vauquier here,

who alone could tell us I brought her here irl's wardrobe to see as

"

"Was she alone in the roohtily "Really, norant of how an affair of this kind should be

conducted I was in the room myself the whole time, with my eye

upon her"