"Le Faouet. I know. And where was the deserted cabin?"
"Did you look in?"
"Yes; and that was the most terrible thing of all. Inside the cabin was . . ."
"What was in the cabin?"
"First of all, the dead body of a man, an old man, dressed in the local costume, with long white hair and a grey beard . . . . Oh, I shall never forget that dead man! . . . He must have been murdered, poisoned, I don't know what . . . ."
Honorine listened greedily, but the murder seemed to give her no clue and she merely asked:
"Who was it? Did they have an inquest?"
"When I came back with the people from Le Faouet, the corpse had disappeared."
"Disappeared? But who had removed it?"