He was intensely flattered by the request of Hanaud, and he proposed to do himself justice.

"I will make a note here of what I think the salient features of the mystery"; and he proceeded to tabulate the points in the following way: (1) Celia Harland made her entrance into Mme.

Dauvray's household under very doubtful circumstances.
(2) By methods still more doubtful she acquired an extraordinary ascendency over Mme.

Dauvray's mind.
(3) If proof were needed how complete that ascendency was, a glance at Celia Harland's wardrobe would suffice; for she wore the most expensive clothes.
(4) It was Celia Harland who arranged that Servettaz, the chauffeur, should be absent at Chambery on the Tuesday night--the night of the murder.
(5) It was Celia Harland who bought the cord with which Mme.

Dauvray was strangled and Helene Vauquier bound.
(6) The footsteps outside the salon show that Celia Harland ran from the salon to the motor-car.
(7) Celia Harland pretended that there should be a seance on the Tuesday, but she dressed as though she had in view an appointment with a lover, instead of a spiritualistic stance.
(8) Celia Harland has disappeared.
These eight points are strongly suggestive of Celia Harland's complicity in the murder.