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A few days after the wrecking of the Mary Belle, Gilbert Larose, the one time international detective, now a country squire and married to the beautiful and wealthy widow, who up to the time of her marriage with him had been Lady Helen Ardane, was sitting with three companions in the big lounge of his home at Carmel Abbey.
It was the hour before dinner, the evening was chilly, and a huge log-fire was burning in the enormous grate.