Superstitious! The word was a sudden light upon his darkness.

Now he knew what had perplexed him during the last two days.

Clearly--too clearly--he remembered where he had seen Celia Harland, and when.

A picture rose before his eyes, and it seemed to strengthen like a film in a developing-dish as Hanaud continued: "Very well! take Mme.

Dauvray as we find her--rich, ostentatious, easily taken by a new face, generous, and foolishly superstitious--and you have in her a living provocation to every rogue.