"What happened then ?" All who were listening understood to what point he was leading Helene Vauquier.

All waited intently for her answer.
She smiled.
"It was all one to Mlle.

Celie." "She was prepared with an escape from the difficulty ?" "Perfectly prepared." Hanaud looked puzzled.
"I can think of no way out of it except the one," and he looked round to the Commissaire and to Ricardo as though he would inquire of them how many ways they had discovered.

"I can think of no escape except that a message in writing should flutter down from the spirit appealed to saying frankly," and Hanaud shrugged his shoulders, "'I do not know.'" "Oh no no, monsieur," replied Helene Vauquier in pity for Hanaud's misconception, "I see that you are not in the habit of attending seances.

It would never do for a spirit to admit that it did not know.
At once its authority would be gone, and with it Mlle.