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The handsome young woman addressed the detective with the charm of manner that had no doubt beguiled so many men, notably Hugh Craig and the susceptible Léon Calliard.
"I take it from what you told my husband, Bertram Edwards, that you are acquainted with me -- at any rate, my appearance. I suppose, Mr. Grewgus, you must have been in Paris at the same time I was there."