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With a plain black dress, a black cloak trimmed profusely with beads, mittened hands and an ebony cane, she looked quite funereal. To complete the oddity of her dress a black satin bag dangled by ribbons from her left arm. In this she carried her handkerchief and something else. As usual, she was perfumed with the Hikui scent.
He uses the same scent as Maraquito does, leaving mysterious Mrs. Herne out of the question." "Well, and what do you deduce from that?" "I believe that there is a gang of coiners in existence, of which this man, Clancy, Hale, Maraquito and Mrs. Herne are members. All use the scent Hikui, which probably is a sign amongst them.
"Yes, I am. Do you like this scent. It is called Hikui, and was given to me by a dear friend who received it from a Japanese attache." "From a friend or relative?" Mrs. Herne frowned. "What do you mean by that?" Jennings shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, nothing. Only you are very like a lady called Senora Gredos." "Maraquito," said Mrs. Herne unexpectedly. "Of course I am. Her father was my brother."
When I opened the door on that night," Susan shuddered, "the first thing I knew was the smell of Hikui making the passage like a hairdresser's shop. I leaned forward to see if the lady was Senora Gredos, and she turned her face away. But I caught sight of it, and if she isn't some relative of my last mistress, may I never eat bread again." "Did Mrs. Herne seem offended when you examined her face?"
Octagon sailed away, after ushering the detective out of the door. Jennings departed, wondering at this change of front. As he passed through the gate a fair, stupid-looking man entered. He nodded to Jennings, touching his hat, and at the same time a strong perfume saluted the detective's nostrils. "Thomas Barnes uses Hikui also," murmured Jennings, walking away. "Humph!
It is rather a long story. But this man who was caught used a particular kind of scent called Hikui. Maraquito uses it also, and her aunt, Mrs. Herne." "Mrs. Herne? She is not Maraquito's aunt." "She told me herself that she was." "And I tell you that Emilia, who is dead, was the only aunt Maraquito ever had. Why does Mrs. Herne say this?" "That is what I am trying to find out.
Jennings related the episode of the photograph, and the incident of the same perfume being used by Mrs. Herne and Maraquito. Peggy nodded. "I don't see how the photograph connects her with the case," she said at length, "but the same perfume certainly is strange. All the same, the scent maybe fashionable. Hikui! Hikui! I never heard of it."
But then the scent may have made me think that." Jennings looked up sharply. "The scent? What do you mean?" "Senora Gredos," explained Susan quietly, "used a very nice scent a Japanese scent called Hikui. She used no other, and I never met any lady who did, save Mrs. Herne." "Oh, so Mrs. Herne used it." "She did, sir.
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