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"Well," he asked, "will you wish to put her on the stand?" I shook my head and started down the stairs, for I was far from desiring an argument just then, but he stopped me with a hand upon the sleeve. "You realise, Mr. Lester," he said, more seriously, "that it is plainly my duty to cause Swain's arrest?" "Yes," I assented. "I realise that. Under the circumstances, you can do nothing else."
If he had happened to seize him by the neck, while they were struggling together, in other words, if those finger-prints Goldberger found had happened to be Swain's things would have looked bad for him. I'm hoping they'll turn out to belong to one of the Hindus but, as I said to Goldberger, I'm afraid that's too good to be true." "Which one of the Hindus?" I asked. "Oh, the Thug, of course."
On the other hand, there was no doubt of her swain's devotion. If he had been influenced in his decision by convenience or calculation, he was certainly by this time heartily in love.
Very well, then: the person who committed the murder made a noise in following Miss Vaughan and her father so that she should think it was Swain who was following them; he picked up the blood-stained handkerchief, which Swain had dropped perhaps when he fled from the arbour, and placed it beside the body; and in some way inconceivable to me he pressed the prints of Swain's fingers on the dead man's robe.
It required much thought and prayer on Dr. Swain's part before she could signify her acceptance of the call, and during the three months of delay in giving her answer the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a member, was organized.
Swain's opinion that the motive of my uncle was to put himself in a good light; and perhaps, he added, there was a little revenge mixed therein, as the Kent estate was the one Mr. Carvel had given him when he cast him off. A southerly wind was sending great rolls of fog before it as Mr. Swain and I, with Banks, crossed over to Kent Island on the ferry the next morning.
I saw that she had mastered her emotion, but her face was still dead white. As for me, my brain was whirling. What if Swain's finger-prints were missing from the book? What connection could that have with the blood-stains on the robe? What was the meaning of Miss Vaughan's emotion? Who was it she had expected to find listening at the door?
Then I took Swain's letter from my pocket. "If you are sincere," I said, "you can easily prove it. I have a letter here from Swain. He gave it to me to-day, and I promised to give it to Miss Vaughan to-night." Without a word, he crossed to the bell and rang it. The maid answered. "Mr. Lester has a letter which you will give to your mistress," he said. "And you will wait for an answer," I added.
How did Popinot know the lights would go out a few minutes after five bells? He was prepared, he lost no time. How did the other miscreant, whoever he was, know it would be safe to commit that wickedness, whatever its purpose, upon the bridge at precisely that time? For plainly he, too, was prepared to act upon the instant that is, if I understand Mr. Swain's report correctly.
For the moon, Madame, since the world began, has been apostrophized by lovers, and at her full, with her pale round face, she recalls to the fond swain's mind the object of his desires." "I know," sighed the citoyenne. "When their time comes the cats make a fine pandemonium in the rain gutter yonder.
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