Dauvray was, as she always was before a seance, in a feverish flutter.

'You will help Mlle.

Celie to dress, Helene, and be very quick,' she said; and with an extraordinary longing she added, 'Perhaps we shall see her tonight.' Her, you understand, was Mme.

de Montespan." And she turned to the stranger and said, "You will believe, Adele, after tonight." "Adele!" said the Commissaire wisely.

"Then Adele was the strange woman's name ?" "Perhaps," said Hanaud dryly.
Helene Vauquier reflected.
"I think Adele was the name," she said in a more doubtful tone.