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Lydon thought that Grewgus looked somewhat crestfallen when they met the following morning in the offices in Craven Street.
He opened the conversation in a rather apologetic tone. "Well, Mr. Lydon, the primary object for which we went to Paris was the establishment of the fact that Zillah Mayhew was the same person as Elise Makris. But that fact we established on the first day we arrived there. I stayed on in order to find something more than that. I am sorry to tell you I have found nothing, except one little thing that makes the affair more mysterious."