But at times perhaps she won at the Villa des Fleurs ?" Helene Vauquier shook her head.
"She loved the Villa des Fleurs, but she never played for high sums and often never played at all.

If she won a few louis, she was as delighted with her gains and as afraid to lose them again at the tables as if she were of the poorest, and she stopped at once.

No, monsieur; twenty or thirty louis--there was never more than that in the house." "Then it was certainly for her famous collection of jewellery that Madame Dauvray was murdered ?" "Certainly, monsieur." "Now, where did she keep her jewellery ?" "In a safe in her bedroom, monsieur.

Every night she took off what she had been wearing and locked it up with the rest.

She was never too tired for that." "And what did she do with the keys ?" "That I cannot tell you.