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"Mrs Cavendish, therefore, h jealousy could have done So into Madees, for I found that it opened quite noiselessly when I tried it She put off her project until the early hours of thesafer, since the servants were accusto her move about her room at that time She dressed coh Madelethorp"

He paused a moment, and Cynthia interrupted: "But I should have woken up if anyone had coed, ed?"

"Mais, oui!"

"You reh all the tumult and noise next door Mademoiselle Cynthia slept That adned--which I did not believe--or her unconsciousness was indeed by artificial means

"With this latter idea in my mind, I exa that it was Mrs Cavendish who had brought Madeht before I took a sample from each cup, and had them analysed--with no result I had counted the cups carefully, in the event of one having been removed Six persons had taken coffee, and six cups were duly found I had to confess uilty of a very grave oversight Coffee had been brought in for seven persons, not six, for Dr Bauerstein had been there that evening This changed the face of the whole affair, for there was now one cup , since Annie, the househt in seven cups, not knowing that Mr Inglethorp never drank it, whereas Dorcas, who cleared the, found six as usual--or strictly speaking she found five, the sixth being the one found broken in Mrs Inglethorp's roo cup was that of Mademoiselle Cynthia I had an additional reason for that belief in the fact that all the cups found contained sugar, which Mademoiselle Cynthia never took in her coffee My attention was attracted by the story of Annie about soht to Mrs Inglethorp's rooly secured a sample of that coco, and sent it to be analysed"