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"But you had already guessed 'Geneva,'" said Ricardo "At

luncheon, before the news cauessed it"

"It was a shot," said Hanaud "The absence of the car helped e city and not very far away, a likely place

for people with the police at their heels to run to earth in But

if the car had been discovered in the garage I should not have

made that shot Even then I had no particular conviction about

Geneva I really wished to see how Wether up"

"He betrayed nothing but surprise You showed no less surprise

than he did, lance

of fear I did not get it"

"Yet you suspected him--even then you spoke of brains and

audacity You told hi

with the red-haired woman in Geneva You isolated him Yes, you

suspected hi When you first came to

me, as I told you, the Co piece of evidence already in his possession

Adolphe Ruel--who saw Wetherether close by

the Casino and overheard that cry of Wethermill's, 'It is true: I

must have money!'--had already been with his story to the

Commissaire I knehen Harry Wethermill came into the room to

ask me to take up the case That was a bold stroke, my friend The

chances were a hundred to one that I should not interrupt my