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With all she learned she did not forget us. We were happy save in her absence. We are happy now; not because she is mistress of Holwood and Marchurst for her grandmother and another is dead but because such as she is our daughter, and " He said no more. Margaret was beside him, and her fingers were on his lips. Gregory came to his feet suddenly, and with a troubled face.
'Katherine Marchurst, no less, burst forth Archie, in triumph; 'she's rin awa' to be a play-actor. 'What? that child? said Vandeloup, with an admirable expression of surprise; 'nonsense! It cannot be true. 'D'ye think I would tell a lee? said Archie, wrathfully, glowering down on the tall figure pacing leisurely along. 'God forbid that my lips should fa' tae sic iniquity.
"It's very kind of you, I'm sure," responded Mr Marchurst, politely, giving way suddenly in the middle as if he had a hinge in his back, which was his idea of a bow. "I hope this," laying his hand on the box, "may be the forerunner of many such." "Oh, it will," said Vandeloup, cheerfully, "if we can only find the Devil's Lead." "An unholy name," groaned Marchurst sadly, shaking his head.
Her own room is a few steps away what, then, was easier for her than to go to her own room, obtain the poison, and put it into the glass? The jury will remember in the evidence of Mr Kilsip, the bottle was three-quarters empty, which argued some of it had been used. All the evidence against Miss Marchurst was purely circumstantial, for if she committed the crime, no human eye beheld her doing so.
After dinner Madame sat and talked with Marchurst, but Kitty went outside into the warm darkness of the summer night, and tried to pierce the gloom to see if her lover was coming. She was rewarded, for M. Vandeloup came up about half-past eight o'clock, having met Pierre as arranged. Pierre had found out Villiers in his hiding- place, and was watching him while Villiers watched the house.
'How could I? replied Vandeloup, slipping his hand into his pocket. 'I could not have gone down to St Kilda, climbed over a wall with glass bottles on top, and committed the crime, as Kitty Marchurst says it was done. If I had done this there would be some trace no, I assure you Mademoiselle Marchurst, and none other, is the guilty woman. She was in the room Madame Midas asleep in bed.
Villiers stood out in the blazing sunshine, thinking. 'She's got the nugget with her in the trap, he said to himself; 'and she's taken it to show Marchurst. Well, she's sure to stop there to tea, and won't start for home till about nine o'clock: it will be pretty dark by then.
Rejecting, then, as improbable the story of the hidden hand, seeing that the evidence was strongly against it, the next thing was to look into Miss Marchurst's past life and see if she had any motive for committing the crime. Before doing so, however, he would point out to them that Miss Marchurst was the only person in the room when the crime was committed.
She comes home filled with all the furious rage of a jealous woman, and enters Mrs Villiers' room, and here the jury will recall the evidence of Mrs Villiers, who said Miss Marchurst did not know that the deceased was sleeping with her.
'Certainly, Madame, he answered, touching the electric button, 'Miss Marchurst and myself were renewing our former friendship. 'How do you think she is looking? asked Madame, as the servant came in and lit the gas. 'Charming, replied Vandeloup, looking at the dainty little figure in white standing under the blaze of the chandelier; 'she is more beautiful than ever.
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