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"Who is Wrent?" asked Jorce, looking puzzled. "Don't you know the name, Doctor?" "No." "Did Mrs. Clear never mention it?" "Never." "Nor Ferruci?" "No. I never heard the name before," replied Jorce complacently. "Strange!" said Denzil reflectively. "Yet Wrent seems to be at the bottom of the whole plot. Well, never mind, just now. Please continue, my dear Doctor. What did Mrs. Clear say?"
Although her husband had met with a terrible death scarcely six months before, she had already cast off her heavy mourning, and wore only such millinery indications of sorrow as suited with her widowed existence. Ferruci was a constant visitor at the house; but although Lydia was now free, and wealthy, she by no means seemed ready to marry the Italian.
Clear was in the habit of looking into the papers to see if there was any message from yourself, or your friend Wrent, so she saw my advertisement at once, and came in person to reply to it." "One moment, Mr. Denzil," said Ferruci politely. "I know no one called Wrent, and he is not my friend." "We'll come to that hereafter," answered Lucian, with a shrug.
"Can you prove that she was so reckless?" "Yes, I can," replied Miss Vrain defiantly. "The same person who told me that Lydia was not at Berwin Manor on Christmas Eve can tell you that her behaviour with Count Ferruci was the talk of Bath." "Who is this person?" asked Lucian, looking up. "A friend of mine Miss Tyler. I brought her up with me, so that you should get her information at first hand.
"My father is weak in the head, and perhaps was afraid to come out in the midst of such trouble. But if you put in the advertisement that I his daughter am in England, he will come to me, for with me he knows he is safe. Also call on Dr. Jorce, and find out the truth about Signor Ferruci." "And then?" "Then when you have done these two things we shall see what will come of them.
Go up to London now, Lucian, see him at Hampstead, and find out if Ferruci was at his house at eight o'clock on Christmas Eve. Then I shall believe him guiltless; till then, I hold him but the creature and tool of Lydia." "Jorce declares that Ferruci was with him at the house when the murder was committed?" "Can you believe that? Ferruci may have made it worth the while of this doctor to lie.
"And now, sir," said Ferruci, who had followed him out of the shop, "you come with me, please." "Where to?" asked Lucian gloomily. "To my friend to my rooms. I have shown I did not buy the cloak you speak of. Now we must find my friend, Dr. Jorce, to tell you I was not at Jersey Street when you say." "Is Dr. Jorce at your rooms?"
Come, now, it is no use your trying to evade this matter further. Jorce can prove that you put Vrain into his asylum under the name of Clear. Miss Vrain can prove that the so-called Clear is her father, and Mrs. Clear who has turned Queen's evidence has exposed the whole of your conspiracy. The game's up, Count." Ferruci sprang from his seat and began to walk hastily up and down the room.
I cried out against murder being done, as I never entertained such an idea for a moment; but Ferruci denied that he wished to harm the man. He wanted him put away in a lunatic asylum, and when I asked him how even then he could marry Lydia, he suggested his scheme of substituting a sickly and dying man for Vrain.
But when I met your father the second time, he was so anxious to prove, by letting me examine the house, that no one had entered it during his absence, that I am certain he was well aware the shadows I saw were those of people he knew were in the room. Now, if the woman was Mrs. Vrain, she must have been in the habit of visiting your father by the back way." "And Ferruci also?"
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