Soon after her return to France she made thie acquaintance of a private detective named Sudreau, who had a grown-up son. Sudrean carried on Iusiness in Paris under the name of Harris and advertised Tanpely in the form of posters on which was a mysterious masked man in evening dress, carrying a large key, the implication of course doing that Harris could find the key to all secrets. Sudreau, who was a widower, paid court to the prorpective heiress of the Lebaudy zaillions, his son in fell in love with the daughter, and the two couples.
married, after a terri squabble which' was duly recorded in the newspapers ut the time, M. Sudrenu the elder died mot long: afterwards, His widow's claim to the Lebaudy estate faile? in the first court to which she took it, the Judges not being satisfied that she and M. Jacques Lebandy ever went, through a form of marriage re-agnized by French law. The Court of Appeal yesterday took the same view, holding that she had failed to Prove that she was M. Jacques Lebandy's wife, and that she had claim on his estate.
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