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A pleased expression passed over Burles's face. Here was an important clue that he would never have discovered for himself. He had taken pretty good stock of the shadow on the blind the night before, but the peculiarity of the woman's comb had escaped him. But he was quite sure now that it was the same woman.
"You have been of the greatest possible service to me, Miss Lefroy," he said. "But for you I should most certainly have missed a most important piece of evidence. We shall have to consider the thing in a new light altogether. Lady Altamont says that the victim of the outrage is an utter stranger to her----"