Now then, before you go, Miss Lennard, I want you to do just one thing more which may be useful to us in our work." He turned to the detective.

"Get those things," he said quietly.
"Bring the lot in here." Celia made a little sound of distaste as the detective presently returned to the room carrying in one hand a brown leather suit-case, and in the other a cardboard dress-box, to which was strapped a travelling-coat, lined with fur.

Her face, which had regained its colour, paled again.
"Lisette's things!" she muttered.

"Oh--I don't--don't like to see them! What is it you want ?" "We want you to identify them--and, if you will, to look them over," replied the chief.

"The cardboard box contains everything she was wearing when she went to the hotel in Eastbourne Terrace; the suit-case and coat are what she took in with her.