When I first got on the right track of the
mystery of this case I had imagined that, on the night of the
tragedy in The Yellow Room, Mademoiselle Stangerson had worn her
hair in bands. But then, how could I have imagined otherwise when
I had not been in The Yellow Room!
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*When I wrote these lines, Joseph Rouletabille was eighteen years of
age,--and he spoke of his "youth." I have kept the text of my friend,
but I inform the reader here that the episode of the mystery of The
Yellow Room has no connection with that of the perfume of the lady
in black. It is not my fault if, in the document which I have cited,
Rouletabille thought fit to refer to his childhood.
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"But now, since the occurrence of the inexplicable gallery, I did
not reason at all. I stood there, stupid, before the apparition
--so pale and so beautiful--of Mademoiselle Stangerson. She was
clad in a dressing-gown of dreamy white. One might have taken her
to be a ghost--a lovely phantom.
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