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Ferruci then departed, promising to bring Mrs. Clear to see me. He brought her late on Christmas Eve, at ten " "Ah!" interrupted Lucian, "did she wear a black gauze veil with velvet spots?" "She did, Mr. Denzil. Have you met her?" "No, but I have heard of her. She was the woman who visited Wrent in Jersey Street. No doubt Ferruci was waiting for her in the back yard."
That woman and Ferruci have planned and carried it out between them. They put my father into the asylum, and made another man pass as him, in order to get the assurance money. As their tool did not die quickly enough, they killed him." "No, Diana. Both Lydia and Ferruci have proved beyond all doubt that they were not in Pimlico at the hour of the death.
I believe Lydia speaks in the full belief that he is; but Ferruci, for his own ends, lied to her. However, to trap the real man, let us do as Lydia suggests. The idea is a good one." "Well, we'll try," said Lucian, with a sigh. "But I do hope, Diana, that this case will end soon. Every week there is some fresh development in a new direction, and I am getting quite bewildered over it."
"Did she say why her husband made you examine the house?" asked Diana. "No. But I expect he made me do so that I should not have my suspicions about that back entrance. But, Mrs. Vrain, when Ferruci confessed that your husband was alive, why did you not tell it to the world?"
You were away in Australia at the time, but I kept a watch on Lydia in your interest, dear, and our housemaid heard from your housemaid the most dreadful things. Why, Mr. Vrain remonstrated with Lydia, and ordered Count Ferruci out of the house, but Lydia would not let him go; and Mr. Vrain left the house himself." "Where did he go to, Miss Tyler?" "I don't know; nobody knows.
However, the main point about all this evidence is, that neither Ferruci nor Lydia Vrain killed your father." "No! no! that seems clear. Still! still! they know about it. Oh, I am sure of it. It must have been Ferruci who was in Pimlico on that night. If so, he knows who Wrent is, and why he stayed in Jersey Street." "Perhaps, although he denies ever hearing the name of Wrent.
"I am not sure if the male shadow was Ferruci, no more than I am certain the other was Mrs. Vrain." "But the veil?" Lucian shrugged his shoulders in despair. "That seems to prove it was she," he said dubiously, "but I can't explain your father's conduct in receiving her in so secretive a way. The whole thing is beyond me."
In short, Lydia ruled her simple father with a rod of iron, and coaxed Ferruci a more difficult man to deal with into good humour; so she managed both of them skilfully in every way, and contrived to keep things smooth, pending her plunge into London society. For all her childish looks, Lydia was uncommonly clever. When Lucian's card was brought in, Mrs.
"Whosoever Wrent is, I don't think he'll come again to the Silent House," replied the barrister, shaking his head. "It would be thrusting his head into the lion's jaws. If he is in London he'll see the death of Ferruci described in the papers, and no doubt will guess that the game is up; so he'll keep away." "Nevertheless, we'll do as Lydia suggests," said Diana obstinately. "You see Mr.
"Did you not get Ferruci to put your husband into an asylum?" "I? I did nothing of the sort. I thought my husband was dead and buried until Ferruci told me the truth, and then I held my tongue until I could think of what to do. After Ercole died, his servant came round and told me all he overheard the conversation you had with the Count, Mr. Denzil.
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