22/30 Do you remember what she said--a black-haired woman with beady eyes; and I only five minutes before had picked up from the table--this." He opened his pocket-book, and took from an envelope a long strand of red hair. A pot of cold cream had disappeared from the room of Mlle Celie." "Then Perrichet after all was right." "Perrichet after all was quite wrong--not to hold his tongue. For in that pot of cold cream, as I was sure, were hidden those valuable diamond earrings which Mlle. Celie habitually wore." The two men had reached the square in front of the Etablissement des Bains. Ricardo dropped on to a bench and wiped his forehead. |