Dauvray nor Helene Vauquier could have worn these shoes.

They were lying, one here, one there, upon the floor of Celie Harland's room, as though she had kicked them off in a hurry.

They are almost new, you see.

They have been worn once, perhaps, no more, and they fit with absolute precision into those footmarks, except just at the toe of that second one." Hanaud took the shoes and, kneeling down, placed them one after the other over the impressions.

To Ricardo it was extraordinary how exactly they covered up the marks and filled the indentations.
"I should say," said the Commissaire, "that Celie Harland went away wearing a new pair of shoes made on the very same last as those." As those she had left carelessly lying on the floor of her room for the first person to notice, thought Ricardo! It seemed as if the girl had gone out of her way to make the weight of evidence against her as heavy as possible.