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"Adele!" said the Coe

woman's name?"

"Perhaps," said Hanaud dryly

Helene Vauquier reflected

"I think Adele was the name," she said in a more doubtful tone

"It sounded like Adele"

The irrepressible Mr Ricardo was impelled to intervene

"What Monsieur Hanaud means," he explained, with the pleasant air

of a ence of a child, "is

that Adele was probably a pseudonyrin

"Now that is sure to help her!" he cried "A pseudonym! Helene

Vauquier is sure to understand that siht this M Ricardo is! Where shall we find a new pin ht? I ask you," and he spread out his hands in a despairing

admiration

Mr Ricardo flushed red, but he answered never a word He ibes and humiliations like a schoolboy in a class His one

constant fear was lest he should be turned out of the room The

Commissaire diverted wrath from him however

"What heMr Ricardo to her as Mr Ricardo had presumed to

explain Hanaud, "is a false name Adele may have been, nay,

probably was, a false nae woman"