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"Certainly A dozen"

"I want only one"

"And here he is," said the Co of the first floor

Durette, the ht, was

still waiting Hanaud took Durette by the sleeve in the familiar

hich he so commonly used and led him to the top of the

stairs, where the two men stood for a few , Durette receiving, definite

instructions Durette descended the stairs; Hanaud came back to

the others

"I have told him to fetch a cab," he said, "and convey Helene

Vauquier to her friends" Then he looked at Ricardo, and from

Ricardo to the Commissaire, while he rubbed his hand backwards and

forwards across his shaven chin

"I tell you," he said, "I find this sinister little drale for mastery in

this household of M Just as

for this

seneral uses to defeat an arained What else is politics? Yes, very interesting"

His eyes rested upon Wether man no hope He took a key from his pocket "We need not keep this room locked," he said "We know all that

there is to be known" And he inserted the key into the lock of

Celia's room and turned it