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"I haven't worn a veil of that kind for over a year," said Lydia decisively, "though I admit I used to wear veils of that sort. You can ask my maid if I have any velvet-spotted veils in my wardrobe just now. As to the cloak I never wear rabbit skins." "You might as a disguise." "Sakes alive, man, what should I want with a disguise? I tell you the cloak isn't mine. You can soon prove that.
To Diana's amusement, Lucian went and shouted down the stairs to Miss Greeb, but as no reply came, and the bell was still ringing furiously, he was obliged to open the door himself. On the step there stood a little woman in a tailor-made brown frock, a plainly trimmed brown straw hat with a black gauze velvet-spotted veil. At once Denzil guessed who she was. "You are Mrs.
"A velvet-spotted veil!" cried Diana, looking at it. "Then it belongs to Lydia Vrain. She usually wears velvet-spotted veils. Mr. Denzil, the evidence is complete that woman is guilty!" Going by circumstantial evidence, Diana certainly had good grounds to accuse Mrs.
Going by the complexion of the man who had lurked in the back yard, it would appear that he was Count Ferruci; while the small stature of the woman, and the fact that she wore a velvet-spotted veil, indicated that she was Lydia Vrain; also the pair had been in the vicinity of the haunted house on the night of the murder; and, although it was true both were out of the place by half-past eight, yet they might not have gone far, but had probably returned later when Rhoda and Mrs.
"Yet you visited him in Jersey Street on Christmas Eve, between seven and eight o'clock." "Did I, really?" cried Mrs. Vrain, ironically, "and how can you prove I did?" "By that cloak," said Lucian, pointing to where it lay on a chair. "You wore that cloak and a velvet-spotted veil."
Vrain went up to town on Christmas Eve and returned on Christmas Day; but," said Diana, with emphasis, "she spent the night in town, and on that night the murder was committed." Lucian produced his pocketbook and took therefrom the fragment of gauze, which he handed to Diana. "I found this on the fence at the back of No. 13," he said. "It is a veil a portion of a velvet-spotted veil."
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