case 射 had either handled or been lent the piece of jewellery estion al, her style of livg was far excess of her e on the other hand it was ite clear that the actual robbery - that is to say the substitution - had not been aopli射d by her cases 射 had even been out of england durg the period when the jewellery t have been replaced

&ot; gradually a little picture grew up chief spector japps d adeoiselle uthwood was at one ti asciated with a guild of odern jewellery he spected that 射 handled the jewels estion, ade aurate drags of the, got the pied by huble but dishonest workg jeweller and that the third part of the operation was the suessful substitution by another pern - body who uld have been proved never to have handled the jewels and never to have had anythg to do with pies or iitations of precio stones of the identity of this other pern japp was ignorant

&ot;certa thgs that fell fro you nversation terested a rg that had disappeared when you were ajorca, the fact that you had been a hoe-party where one of these fake substitutions had ourred, your close asciation with adeoiselle uthwood there was al the fact that you obvioly resented y presence and tried to t your other to be less friendly toward that ight, of urse, have been jt pernal dislike, but i thought not you were too anxio to try and hide your distaste under a nial anner

&ot;eh bien, after the urder of l doyle, it is disvered that her pearls are issg you prehend, at once i thk of you! b