CHAPTER XIII

MANON "_'That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the_ _whole story, had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so_ _fond of depicting.'_" MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "Thank God," said Parker. "Well, that settles it." "It does--and yet again, it doesn't," retorted Lord Peter. He leaned back against the fat silk cushion in the sofa corner meditatively. "Of course, it's disagreeable having to give this woman away," said Parker sensibly and ple…