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Updated: May 13, 2025
She is clever with her needle and has done some work for me." "What floor is she on?" "Same as ours....at the end of the corridor....and I think.... the window of her kitchen...." "Opens on this little court, does it not?" "Yes, just opposite ours." Mon. Valorbe then asked to see Henriette.
When they were alone again, the count said to the commissary: "I do not suppose you suspect Henriette. I can answer for her. She is honesty itself." "I quite agree with you," replied Mon. Valorbe. "At most, I thought there might have been an unconscious complicity. But I confess that even that theory must be abandoned, as it does not help solve the problem now before us."
"Yes, but it is closed up." "I will look at it." Candles were lighted, and Mon. Valorbe observed at once that the lower half of the window was covered by a large press which was, however, so narrow that it did not touch the casement on either side. "On what does this window open?" "A small inner court." "And you have a floor above this?"
She turned to her husband, and said: "I was thinking of Henriette." "Henriette? She didn't know where we kept it." "Are you sure?" "Who is this woman Henriette?" asked Mon. Valorbe. "A school-mate, who was disowned by her family for marrying beneath her. After her husband's death, I furnished an apartment in this house for her and her son.
Valorbe, who came at once, and, after hearing their story, inquired of the count: "Are you sure that no one passed through your chamber during the night?" "Absolutely sure, as I am a very light sleeper. Besides, the chamber door was bolted, and I remember unbolting it this morning when my wife rang for her maid." "And there is no other entrance to the cabinet?" "None." "No windows?"
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