I can't find out, although I asked all the servants; but it has been missing from its place for some months." "Do you think Mrs.Vrain took it ?" "I can't say," replied Diana, "but I have made one discovery about Mrs.
Vrain which implicates her still more in the crime.

She was not in Berwin Manor on Christmas Eve, but in town." "Really!" said Lucian much amazed.

"But Link was told that she spent Christmas in the Manor at Bath." "So she did.

Link asked generally, and was answered generally.

Mrs.
Vrain went up to town on Christmas Eve and returned on Christmas Day; but," said Diana, with emphasis, "she spent the night in town, and on that night the murder was committed." Lucian produced his pocketbook and took therefrom the fragment of gauze, which he handed to Diana.
"I found this on the fence at the back of No.