Then he took an empty envelope from his pocket and poured the soil into it and gummed the flap down.

He stood and frowned at the motor-car.
"Listen," he said, "how I am puzzled! There was a man last night at the Villa Rose.

There were a man's blurred footmarks in the mould before the glass door.

That man drove madame's car for a hundred and fifty kilometers, and he leaves the mould which clung to his boots upon the floor of his seat.Mlle.Celie and another woman drove away inside the car.Mlle.Celie leaves a fragment of the chiffon tunic of her frock which caught in the hinge.

But Mlle.