And--and--he must have the money.
He travelled, accordingly, the next day to Geneva, and was there presented to Adele Tace and Hippolyte.
"They are trusted friends of mine," said Helene Vauquier to Wethermill, who was not inspired to confidence by the sight of the young man with the big ears and the plastered hair.

As a matter of fact, she had never met them before they came this year to Aix.
The Tace family, which consisted of Adele and her husband and Jeanne, her mother, were practised criminals.

They had taken the house in Geneva deliberately in order to carry out some robberies from the great villas on the lake-side.

But they had not been fortunate; and a description of Mme.

Dauvray's jewellery in the woman's column of a Geneva newspaper had drawn Adele Tace over to Aix.