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"Well, I'd got the assurance money, you see," said Lydia, with shrewd candour, "and I thought the company would make a fuss and take it back as I suppose they will now. Ferruci wanted me to marry him, but I wasn't so bad as that. I did not want to commit bigamy. But I really held my tongue because Ferruci told me who killed Clear." "He knew, then?" cried Lucian, "and denied it to me!
On arriving at the Royal John Hotel he found that Diana was waiting for him with great impatience; and hardly giving herself time to greet him, she asked how he had fared in his interview with Count Ferruci. "Has that man been arrested, Mr. Denzil?" "No, Miss Vrain. I regret to say that he has not been arrested. To speak plainly, he has, so far as I can see, proved himself innocent." "Innocent!
"That strengthens the accusation I bring against Ferruci." "And, again," continued Denzil, hardly listening to what she was saying, "when I mentioned my suspicion about the stiletto in the hearing of Mrs. Vrain, she fainted." "Which showed that her guilty conscience pricked her. Oh, I am sure of it, Mr. Denzil! My stepmother and the count are the criminals!"
"Very little, and that bad," replied Denzil shortly. "Do you refer to the horrible death of my son-in-law?" "Yes, I do, Mr. Clyne. I believe Ferruci had a hand in it, and if you bring him here I'll tell him so." "Can you prove it?" asked Clyne eagerly. "No.
But this I say, Lucian, that if you love me, and would have me marry you, you must find out the truth of these matters. Learn if this dead man is my father for from what you have told me of the lost finger I do not believe that he is. Hunt down the assassin, and discover if he is whom I believe him to be Ferruci himself; and learn, if you can, what Lydia has to do with all these evil matters.
Ferruci also told me that he had seen Michael Clear on the stage, and that as he was so like Mark, and was likely to die of drink and consumption, he got him to play the part of Mark in Geneva Square, under the name of Berwin. Mrs. Clear visited her husband there by climbing over a back fence, and getting down a cellar, somehow." "I know that," said Lucian. "It was Mrs.
Vrain," replied Lucian, making this threat to force Ferruci into defending himself or confessing. "Mrs. Vrain is innocent she knows nothing about this conspiracy, as you call it. I planned the whole thing myself." "You admit, then, that the so-called Vrain was really Michael Clear?" "Yes. I got him to personate the man Vrain, so that I could get the assurance money when I married Lydia.
He welcomed the barrister with a smiling nod, and having some instinct that Lucian came on an unpleasant errand, he did not offer him his hand. From the first the two men were on their guard against one another. "Good-morning, sir," said Ferruci in his best English. "May I ask why you take me from my bed so early?" "To tell you a story." "About my friend Dr.
If that is so, Ferruci could not have killed him, because, as I said before, he was here at half-past ten on that night." "I don't say he actually killed the man," explained Lucian eagerly, "but he certainly employed some one to strike the blow, else what was he doing in the Jersey Street yard on that night? You can say what you like, Dr. Jorce, but that man is guilty of Mark Vrain's death."
Bensusan a week's rent and left her house two days after Christmas. I returned to Berwin Manor, and shortly afterwards Ferruci joined me there, as he had successfully incarcerated Vrain in the asylum under the name of Michael Clear. "When the advertisement came out, it was I who hinted to Lydia that the dead man seeing that he was called Berwin might be her husband.
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