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The Tace family, which consisted of Adele and her husband and

Jeanne, her mother, were practised criminals They had taken the

house in Geneva deliberately in order to carry out soreat villas on the lake-side But they had not been

fortunate; and a description of Mme Dauvray's jewellery in the

woman's column of a Geneva newspaper had drawn Adele Tace over to

Aix She had set about the task of seducing Mme Dauvray's maid,

and found a master, not an instrument

In the small cafe on that afternoon of July Helene Vauquier

instructed her accoh

what she proposed was the most ordinary stroke of business Once

or twice subsequently Wethero-

between, went to the house in Geneva, altering his hair and

wearing a ements He s was there any

talk of e sarcasm "In decent

conversation there is always a reticence So is left to be

understood"

And it is difficult to understand how murder could not have been

an essential part of their plan, since---But let us see what

happened