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Chapter 3

This was the story of the past.

The story so far as we knew it then.

Two obvious conclusions presented themselves to my mind after hearing it.

In the first place, I saw it darkly what the nature of the conspiracy had been,

how chances had been watched, and how circumstances had been handled to ensure impunity,

to adaring an intricate crime.

While all details were still a mystery to me,

the vile manner in which the personal resemblance between the woman in white and lady glide

had been turned to account was clear, beyond a doubt.

It was plain that Anne Catholic had been introduced into Count Fosco's house as lady glide.

It was plain that lady glide had taken the dead woman's place in the asylum,

the substitution, having been so managed, has to make innocent people the doctor and the two servants,

certainly, and the owner of the madhouse and all probability, accomplices in the crime.

The second conclusion came as the necessary consequence of the first.

We, three, had no mercy to expect from Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glide.

The success of the conspiracy had brought with it a clear gain to those two men of 30,000 pounds,

20,000 to one, 10,000 to the other through his wife.

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