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world Women had fooled men before today

Wethermill snatched his hands away from before his face

"We talk theories," he cried desperately, "of what may have

happened at the villa But we are not by one inch nearer to the

man and woman who committed the crime It is for the ourselves questions, how shall we find

the

of him He has left no trace Look at this town of Aix, where

people coo like a crowd about the baccarat-table! He may

be at Marseilles today Heour luncheon How shall we find hi assent

"I know But it is so hard to sit still and do nothing," he cried

"Yes, but we are not sitting still," said Hanaud; and Wethermill

looked up with a sudden interest "All the tient Perrichet has beeninquiries

Mme Dauvray and Mlle Celie left the Villa Rose at five, and

returned on foot soon after nine with the strange wo to be suent-de-ville

"Perrichet will make an excellent detective," he said; "for he

looks more bovine and foolish in plain clothes than he does in

uniform"

Perrichet advanced in his mufti to the table