Her dress consisted of skirt and jacket of a soft shade of brown.

Hat indistinguishable.

She carried, on leaving the hotel, a dark brown leather bag of medium size, long and narrow in shape.

Her only peculiarity, saving the one drooping eyelid, is a hesitating walk.
This is particularly obvious when she attempts to hasten.
It is to be hoped that this person on hearing of Miss Willetts' death, will communicate at once with the clerk of the hotel.
If in two days this does not occur, a reward of five hundred dollars will be given to the man or woman who can give definite news of this Frenchwoman's whereabouts.
Police Headquarters, Mulberry St.
This notice, appended to such particulars of the tragedy as appeared in all the morning papers, roused the city--I may even say the country--to even greater wonder and excitement than had followed the first details given in the journals of the evening before.
Would anything come of it?
Morning passed; no news of Antoinette Duclos.
Afternoon: messages of all kinds leading to much work, but bringing no result.
Five o'clock: a missive from the directors of the museum to the effect that under the peculiar circumstances and the seeming absence of any friends of the deceased, they would be glad to furnish the means necessary to the proper care and burial of the young woman killed in such an unhappy manner within their walls.
A half-hour later, Gryce, for whose appearance the Inspector had been anxiously waiting, came in with his report.

A chair was pushed up for him, for he was an old man and had had a sleepless night, as we know, besides two days of continued work.