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Colwyn, can you prove that it was not Mr. Penreath who placed the money in the pit?" "I believe I can prove, at all events, that it was not Penreath who threw the body into the pit." "You can! Then who was it?" "I am not prepared to answer that question at the moment.
The strongest link in the chain of circumstances against Penreath was the footprints leading to the pit. They had undoubtedly been made by his boots, but circumstances can lie as well as witnesses, and in both cases the most plausible sometimes prove the greatest liars. Take away the clue of the footprints, and the case against Penreath was snapped in the most vital link.
But tell me what you think of this dreadful case, Mr. Colwyn. I am so frightfully distressed about it that I really don't know what to do. How could Mr. Penreath do such a shocking thing? Why didn't he go back to the front, if he had to kill somebody, instead of hiding away from everybody and murdering this poor old man in this wild spot? Such a disgrace to us all!" "Mr.
"It is my belief that he originally intended to leave the murdered man in his room, thinking that the match-box and knife would point suspicion to Penreath. But after killing Mr.
The inference is that Penreath left his match-box in the dining room after lighting his candle before going to bed, and the murderer found it and took it into Mr. Glenthorpe's bedroom to point suspicion towards Penreath. "This fact opened up a new possibility about the crime the possibility that Penreath was the victim of a conspiracy.
"And nothing more was said on either side while Penreath was in the room?" "Nothing. Penreath's attitude struck me as that of a man who did not wish to speak. He appeared self-conscious and confused, like a man with a secret to hide." "Perhaps his silence was due to pride.
"You keep silence till an innocent man is almost hanged for your misdeeds, and now have the brazen effrontery to say it makes no difference." "Is Mr. Penreath innocent?" "Nobody should know that better than you." "Then who murdered Mr. Glenthorpe?" "Let us have no more of this fooling, Benson." Superintendent Galloway's voice was very stern. "You have already admitted that you carried Mr.
There cannot be very much the matter with your nerves to have stood the experience of the last few weeks. After we get you out of here, and you have had a good rest, you will be yourself again." "And what about this other thing this furor epilepticus, whatever it is?" asked Penreath, anxiously. "As you didn't murder anybody, you haven't had the epileptic fury," replied Colwyn, laughing.
He did so, and I asked him what the initials were for, and he told me they stood for his own name James Ronald Penreath. And then he told me much about himself and his family, and and he said he cared for me, but he was not free." She gave out the last few words in a low tone, and stood looking at him like a girl who had exposed the most sacred secret of her heart in order, to help her lover.
In the circumstances, therefore, I shall avail myself of Sir Henry's evidence. In my own mind from my own observation and conversation with Penreath I am convinced that he cannot be held responsible for his actions.
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