Celie's record as Helene Vauquier gave it to us, and a record obviously true.

There was the fact that she had got rid of Servettaz.

There was the maid upstairs very ill from the chloroform.
What more likely than that Mlle.

Celie had arranged a seance, and then when the lights were out had admitted the murderer through that convenient glass door ?" "There were, besides, the definite imprints of her shoes," said Mr.
Ricardo.
"Yes, but that is precisely where I began to feel sure that she was innocent," replied Hanaud dryly.

"All the other footmarks had been so carefully scored and ploughed up that nothing could be made of them.
Yet those little ones remained so definite, so easily identified, and I began to wonder why these, too, had not been cut up and stamped over.
The murderers had taken, you see, an excess of precaution to throw the presumption of guilt upon Mlle.