"Ye-es--yes," and the words came now firm and clear.

"I remember well.Mlle.Celie had taken them off before her bath, and they lay on the dressing-table.

She put them into her ears while I dressed her hair and arranged the bow of ribbon in it." "Then we will add the earrings to your description," said Hanaud, as he rose from his chair with the paper in his hand, "and for the moment we need not trouble you any more about Mademoiselle Celie." He folded the paper up, slipped it into his letter-case, and put it away in his pocket.

"Let us consider that poor Madame Dauvray! Did she keep much money in the house ?" "No, monsieur; very little.

She was well known in Aix and her cheques were everywhere accepted without question.