And then there came a strange and human turn to the affair.

Adele Rossignol--or, to give her real name, Adele Tace, the wife of Hippolyte--had conceived a veritable passion for Harry Wethermill.

He was of a not uncommon type, cold and callous in himself, yet with the power to provoke passion in women.

And Adele Tace, as the story was told of how Harry Wethermill had paid his court to Celia Harland, was seized with a vindictive jealousy.

Hanaud was not surprised.