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Updated: June 16, 2025
Raoul Dauvray escorts Madame de Santos and the girl whose rumored loveliness is famous already. Philip Hardin, with several noted counsel, is in readiness. Pere Francois is absent. There is an elderly invalid, with an Eastern party of strangers, who resembles him wonderfully. On the case being reached, there is a busy hum of preparation.
Let us not go back beyond her marriage seventeen years ago to a wealthy manufacturer of Nancy, whom she had met in Paris. Seven years ago M. Dauvray died, leaving his widow a very rich woman. She had a passion for jewellery, which she was now able to gratify. She collected jewels. A famous necklace, a well-known stone she was not, as you say, happy till she got it.
But you know also of women and girls who can live untainted and unspoilt amidst surroundings which are suspicious." Hanaud listened, but he neither agreed nor denied. He took up a second slip of paper. "I shall tell you something now of Mme. Dauvray," he said. "We will not take up her early history. It might not be edifying and, poor woman, she is dead.
"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.
Dauvray and Mlle. Celie prepared to leave the house on foot. It was their custom to walk down at this hour to the Villa des Fleurs, pass an hour or so there, dine in a restaurant, and return to the Rooms to spend the evening. On this occasion, however, Mme.
"Oh, no, madame!" she stammered. "Here, at Aix, we are not in the spirit for such things." And then, in a voice of dread, Mme. Dauvray asked: "Is it true, then, what Adele said?" And Celia started violently. Mme. Dauvray doubted. "I believe it would break my heart, my dear, if I were to think that; if I were to know that you had tricked me," she said, with a trembling voice.
"They are put to so many shifts to hide it from the servants of their neighbours," said Helene. "Besides," and she made a little grimace of contempt, "a fine household and an overdrawn banking account it is like a ragged petticoat under a satin dress. That was never the case with Madame Dauvray." "So that she was under no necessity to have ready money always in her pocket," said Hanaud.
Celia was not greatly disconcerted by Mme. Rossignol's precautions. She would have to be a little more careful, and Mme. de Montespan would be a little longer in responding to the call of Mme. Dauvray than most of the other dead ladies of the past had been. But that was all. She was, however, really troubled in another way.
Celia Harland pretended that there should be a seance on the Tuesday, but she dressed as though she had in view an appointment with a lover, instead of a spiritualistic stance. Celia Harland has disappeared. These eight points are strongly suggestive of Celia Harland's complicity in the murder. Dauvray and Celia Harland? How was the murder committed? Why is the other cushion torn? Mr.
"I will speak to Helene," said Mme. Dauvray, and Adele Tace was content. There was a particular new dress of which she knew, and it was very desirable that Mlle. Celie should wear it tonight.
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