person she is of medium height, but stocky for a Frenchwoman. Dark
hair, black eyes, with an affection of the lid which causes the left
one to droop. Her dress consisted of skirt and jacket of a soft shade
of brown. Hat indistinguishable. She carried, on leaving the hotel, a
dark brown leather bag of medium size, long and narrow in shape. Her
only peculiarity, saving the one drooping eyelid, is a hesitating walk.
This is particularly obvious when she attempts to hasten.

It is to be hoped that this person on hearing of Miss Willetts' death,
will communicate at once with the clerk of the hotel.

If in two days this does not occur, a reward of five hundred dollars
will be given to the man or woman who can give definite news of this
Frenchwoman's whereabouts.

Police Headquarters, Mulberry St.

This notice, appended to such particulars of the tragedy as appeared in
all the morning papers, roused the city--I may even say the country--to
even greater wonder and excitement than had followed the first details
given in the journals of the evening before.

Would anything come of it?

Morning passed; no news of Antoinette Duclos.

Afternoon: messages of all kinds leading to much work, but bringing no
result.

Five o'clock: a missive from the directors of the museum to the effect
that under the peculiar circumstances and the seeming absence of any
friends of the deceased, they would be glad to furnish the means
necessary to the proper care and burial of the young woman killed in such
an unhappy manner within their walls.

A half-hour later, Gryce, for whose appearance the Inspector had been
anxiously waiting, came in with his report. A chair was pushed up for
him, for he was an old man and had had a sleepless night, as we know,
besides two days of continued work. But he did not drop into it, as the
Inspector expected, or give any other signs of exceptional fatigue; yet
when he had seated himself and they were left alone, he did not hasten to
speak, though he evidently had much to say, but remained quiet, holding
counsel, as it were, in his old way, with some small object he had picked
up from the desk before him.

At last the Inspector spoke:

"You have been on the hunt; what did you find?"

"Not much, Inspector--and yet enough to disturb me in a way I was not
looking for. Of course, in studying the situation carefully, you have
asked yourself how the man who shot the arrow from behind the upp