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"Now I co

when you saw Mlle Celie in the garden behind the baccarat-rooms

you noticed that she wore no jewellery except a pair of diaraph of her which Wether them Is it not, therefore, probable that

she usually wore them? When I exas--the case was e them when she came down to the seance"

"Yes"

"Well, I read a description--a carefully written description--of

the irl, irl's wardrobe There is no s So I

asked her--'Was she not wearing them?' Helene Vauquier was taken

by surprise How should I know anything of Mlle Celie's earrings?

She hesitated She did not quite knohat answer to make Nohy? Since she herself dressed Mile Celie, and remembers so very

well all she wore, why does she hesitate? Well, there is a reason

She does not kno much I know about those diamond eardrops

She is not sure whether we have not dipped into that pot of cold

crea she cannot answer So

noe come back to our pot of cold cream"

"Yes!" cried Mr Ricardo "They were there"

"Wait a bit," said Hanaud "Let us see hoorks out Re which she must hide,

and which she wishes to hide in Mlle Celie's rooestion that she should look through

madeirl's roo were discovered that would

be the natural place for it? It is, then, so to

Mlle Celie There was a second condition we laid down It was

so Vauquier had not been able to hide before It caht Why could she not bide it

last night? Because she was not alone There were the , then, which she was