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"We then went to Mme Dauvray's room and discovered her brilliants

and her ornaitated piece of

hand-writing of Mlle Celie's becomes clear She is asked where

the jewels are hidden She cannot answer, for her mouth, of

course, is stopped She has to write Thus et more

and uilty--

Celie or Vauquier My discoveries all fit in with the theory of

Celie's innocence But there remain the footprints, for which I

found no explanation

"You will re of Mht, if they have

taken the girl away so that suspicion may fall on her and not on

Vauquier, theyas they have a chance of finding out fro-place It was a small chance but our only one The irl's fate was

sealed, were my theory true

"Then came our advertisement and Mme Gobin's written testimony

There was one small point of interest which I will take first: her

statement that Adele was the Christian name of the woman with the

red hair, that the old woman as the servant in that house in

the suburb of Geneva called her Adele, just simply Adele That

interested me, for Helene Vauquier had called her Adele too when

she was describing to us the unknown visitor 'Adele' hat

Mme Dauvray called her"

"Yes," said Ricardo "Helene Vauquier iven her a false name"

Hanaud nodded

"It is the one slip she made in the whole of the business Nor did