At the convent where she was educated, she had been registered under the name of Duclos--also at the hotel where she and her mother had spent a few days before leaving for England.

Though of pure French descent, the father being a Breton, they could not furnish her birth-certificate, as she had not been born in France.

According to the records to be seen at the convent, the father, Achille Duclos, was a professor of languages, whom her mother had met in England and married in France before going to the States.

So far as known, their story was a simple one, affording no reason, so far as could be learned, for any change of name on the part of the young woman, in her visit to America.
This was supplemented by a word from Scotland Yard, England, received a few hours after the other, to the effect that Madame Duclos and Miss Willetts arrived at the Ritz from Dover, on the morning of May 16th, and left the next morning for Southampton.

They spent the evening at the theater with friends who called for them in a public automobile.