[At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Villa Rose CHAPTER VIII 27/32
Dauvray and Mlle.
Celie, was not a woman with black hair and bright black eyes. Look!" And, fetching his pocket-book from his pocket, he unfolded a sheet of paper and showed them, lying upon its white surface a long red hair. "I picked that up on the table-the round satinwood table in the salon. It was easy not to see it, but I did see it.
Now, that is not Mlle. Celie's hair, which is fair; nor Mme.
Dauvray's, which is dyed brown; nor Helene Vauquier's, which is black; nor the charwoman's, which, as I have taken the trouble to find out, is grey.
It is therefore from the head of our unknown woman.
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