He said: "I can assure you, Mademoiselle, that I shall prove to you in a minute that it was not I. I shall do that very easily... now we have elucidated the fact that you found this suicide note, and you removed it. You removed it because you knew that it had been put into his pocket merely as a blind. It had been put there to delude the police when the body was eventually found. It was hoped that this note would make them believe that Taudrille was one of those traitors who have met a well-deserved fate at the hands of some of the brave people who did so much for France and who have suffered so much during the last few years. That is what you thought, isn't it?"
She said: "Of course."
Guelvada looked up at her; his blue eyes were wide; his face presented the picture of a man who in no c
