"Never mind this peacemaking," said Ralph, briskly; "let us go to London and get this particular matter threshed out. Come, Audrey."
"One moment," said Perry Toat, bringing a photograph out of her pocket. "Do you remember how I told you that I was hunting for the hospital nurse who stole Colonel Ilse's child?"
"Yes; but what has that case to do with the matter?" asked Ralph, with considerable impatience, as he wished to do one thing at a time.
"Look at the photograph, Mrs. Shawe, and see," said the detective.
Audrey took the photograph and looked at it hard. Then she started back with a cry of amazement. "It is a picture of my mother!" she gasped.
"Oh, no," said Miss Toat, easily; "you are misled by the resemblance and by the absence of the birthmark, which does not show in the photograph."
"I see," said Ralph, examining the picture. "This is Madame Coralie?"
"Exactly--as a hospital nurse and kidnapper!"