'
"'And you believe that?' Arthur demanded.
"'It is not a question of what I believe,' Lyle said, gravely. 'It is
a question for your peers.'
"'The man is insolent!' Arthur cried. 'The thing is monstrous!
Horrible!'
"Before we could stop him, he sprang out of his cot and began pulling
on his clothes. When the nurses tried to hold him down, he fought
with them.
"'Do you think you can keep me here,' he shouted, 'when they are
plotting to hang me? I am going with you to that house!' he cried at
Lyle. 'When you find those bodies I shall be beside you. It is my
right. He is my brother. He has been murdered, and I can tell you who
murdered him. That woman murdered him.'
'She first ruined his life, and now she has killed him. For the last
five years she has been plotting to make herself his wife, and last
night, when he told her he had discovered the truth about the
Russian, and that she would never see him again, she flew into a
passion and stabbed him, and then in terror of the gallows, killed
herself. She murdered him, I tell you, and I promise you that we will
find the knife she used near her--perhaps still in her hand.
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