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Penreath, to give him his proper name, was brought under escort into the room where we were seated. He started back at the sight of Miss Willoughby I suppose he had no idea whom he was going to see and said, 'Why, Constance! The poor girl looked up at him and exclaimed, 'Oh, James, how could you? and burst into a flood of tears. It was a very painful scene."
"Was it Penreath who got out of the window?" "No, Penreath, like Benson, was the victim of a deep and subtle villain." "Then who was it?" Before Colwyn could reply a shriek rang out a single hoarse and horrible cry, which went reverberating and echoing over the marshes, rising to a piercing intensity at its highest note, and then ceasing suddenly.
Who do you think broke it?" "How should I know, sir?" His bird's eyes, in their troubled shadow, turned uneasily from the detective's glance. "Nevertheless, you can hazard an opinion. Why not? The case is over and done with now, and Penreath or Ronald, as he called himself is condemned to death. So who do you think broke that burner, Benson?" "Who else but the murderer, sir?"
The witness said that Lady Penreath was undoubtedly an epileptic, and suffered from attacks extending over twenty years, commencing when her only son was five years old, and continuing till her death ten years ago. For some years the attacks were slight, without convulsions, but ultimately the grand mal became well developed, and several attacks in rapid succession ultimately caused her death.
Perhaps she thought that the marriage of her niece to a Penreath of Twelvetrees would open doors for her. At any rate, I remember there was a great deal of tittle-tattle at the time to the effect that she manoeuvred desperately hard to bring about the engagement.
"That can wait," said the detective. "I feel deeply interested in this case of young Penreath." "Mr. Oakham saw him this morning before coming over," said Sir Henry. "He is quite mad, and refuses to say anything. Therefore, we have come to the conclusion " "Really, Sir Henry, you shouldn't have said that." Mr. Oakham's tone was both shocked and expostulatory.
Penreath is a sane man as sane as you or I and my late investigations at the scene of the murder have convinced me that he is an innocent man also. The question is, are you going to allow professional etiquette to stand in the way of proving his innocence?" "But you have not shown me anything to convince me that he is an innocent man.
I witnessed the scene at the breakfast table, and, in my opinion, Sir Henry Durwood acted hastily and wrongly in rushing forward and seizing Penreath. There was nothing in his behaviour that warranted it. He was a little excited, and nothing more, and from what I have heard since he had reason to be excited.
I had read about you; I knew that you were famous and clever, and after seeing you I felt that you would be sure to discover my secret, and put Mr. Penreath in prison. "That night when I was downstairs, I heard you and the police officer talking in the room where you had dined, and I listened at the door.
"It was when we visited the murdered man's bedroom that the first doubts came to my mind as to the conclusiveness of the circumstantial evidence against Penreath. The theory was that Penreath, after murdering Mr. Glenthorpe, put the body on his shoulder, and carried it downstairs and up the rise to the pit.
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