Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-08
CHAPTER xxI-coNTrNuED.

Or course It Ii conjecture. ] do
not az vet hold pigheadedly to It. /
an not yet sure that Mile. Celie Is
ment to admit the facts contradict
my theory. But on the contrary, each
fact I discover, helps to take shape.
Her Second EFrOv.
Now I come TO Helen vanquier,,6
second mistake On the evening that
you saw Mile. Celie in the garden be-
mind n baccarat rooms you noticed
tnat 2 wore no jewelry except q
~ OF diamond eardrops. In the
photograph OF her which Wether-
tne them. II Is not therefore prob-
able. that she usually wore them?
When ! examined her room /
FOUND b case for those earrings
the case was empty. It was natural
then, to infer that she was wearing
them when she came down to the
searce.n
Yes"
Well, / read the description Ia
careful written description-of the
= missing MSS = girl male BY Helen vanauisr
wardrobe. There is no mention. OF
the earrings. So I asked her-Was
she not wearing them y, Helen VAN
qpier was taken by surprise. How
should know anything Of Mile.
Celiess earrings.
She h~esitated. She did not quite
know what answer to make. Now
why? Since she herself dressed
Mile. Celie, and remembering so very
well all she wore, why does she hesi-
tate. well there Is . reason,
She does not know how much /
know about those diamonds earrings
She is not sure whether we have not
dipped into that pot OF cold cream
and found them. Yet without know
ing She cannot answer. So now we
come back to our pot OF cold cream,
How it Worked Out.
were there
Wait a Bit" said Hansud. "Let
us see how it works out. Remember
the conditions. Vanquiet has some
small thing which she must hide, and
which she wishes to hide in Mile.
Celie's room For she admitted that
1T was her suggestion that she would
look through mademoiselle's ward
robe For what reason does she
choose the girls except that if
the thing We're discovered that would
be the natural place for it? 1T is,
then, something belonging to Mile.
Celie.s There was a. second condition
we laid down. 1t was something
vanqqier had not been able to hide
before.
1T came then into her possession
last night. Because she was not
alone. There was the man and the
women, her a~ccomplices. It was
something, then. which she was con-
cerned in hiding from them. It is
not rash to guess, then, that it was
some piece Of the plumber Of which
me other two would have claimed
their share-and a piece Of plumber
belonging to Mile. Celie. We'll, she
has nothing but the diamond ear
drops.
Suppose vanquier is left alone to
guard. Mile. Celie while the other two
ransAck Nine. DAuvray's room. She
sees her chance The girl cannot
stir hand and foot to gave herself.
vanquier tears the eardrops in a
hurry from her ears-and there I
should expect II to be. Hut now
follow this? Vanquier hides the ear
rings In her pocket. She goes to bed
In order to be chloroformed.
Needs to Act,
She known that it is very possible
that her room will be searched be-
fore n regains consciousness, or
before she Is we'll enough to move.
inere Is only ne place to hide them
IN, only one place where they will be
safe. In bed with her. But il the
morning she must get rid Of them,
and a nurse Is with her. Hence the
excuse to go to Mile. celie's room.
II the eardrops are found in the pot
Of cold cream it would be thought
that Mile. Celie had herself hidden
them there for safety. Again, it is
conjecture, and I wish to make sure.
so I tell vanquier she can. 60
away, and I leave her unwAtched, I
nave her driven to the depot Instead
of to her friends, and searched. Upon
her is found the pot OF cream and in
the cream Mile. Celie's eardrops 6She
has slipped into Mile. Celie's room, il