\" said Mme. Storey quietly. \"You bought them the same day.\"
He stared at her speechlessly. She merely exhibited the sales slip.
\"You can't prove anything by that!\" he cried. \"They don't enter the items on the sales slips. Only the amounts.\"
\"Quite,\" said Mme. Storey. \"The bottles are each marked thirty-nine cents. The slip is for seventy-eight.\"
\"That doesn't prove anything. It's only a coincidence. Half the articles
\" said Mme. Storey quietly. \"You bought them the same day.\"
He stared at her speechlessly. She merely exhibited the sales slip.
\"You can't prove anything by that!\" he cried. \"They don't enter the items on the sales slips. Only the amounts.\"
\"Quite,\" said Mme. Storey. \"The bottles are each marked thirty-nine cents. The slip is for seventy-eight.\"
\"That doesn't prove anything. It's only a coincidence. Half the articles
