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I merely mention it now in support of my contention that the case of circumstantial evidence against Penreath was by no means a strong one, because it originally depended, in part, on inferred facts which the premises did not warrant.
"Then you compel me to go to the authorities and tell them what I have discovered. I will save you in spite of yourself." "Do you think that I want to be saved like that?" Struggling desperately for self-control Penreath turned to Mr. Oakham. "Why did you bring Mr. Colwyn here?" he asked the solicitor fiercely. "To torture me?" Before Mr. Oakham could reply Colwyn laughed aloud.
And at the bedside she picked up the knife the knife you had used at dinner and this." Colwyn produced Penreath's match-box from his pocket and laid it on the table in front of him. "Because of the knife and this match-box she thought you guilty." "I! Why I never left my room after I went into it," exclaimed Penreath. "I left the match-box in the room where I had dined with Mr. Glenthorpe.
Glenthorpe in circumstances that would divert suspicion to the stranger. Penreath unconsciously helped him by leaving his match-box in the room where he had dined with Mr. Glenthorpe.
The hidden doors in the wall, which looked into the next room, supplied an answer to the question. Penreath had looked through, and seen what? My first thought was that he had seen the murder committed, but that theory did not account for the destruction of the letter, and his silence when arrested, unless, indeed, the girl had committed the murder. The girl Peggy!
The murderer entered through the window the bits of red mud adhering to the carpet prove that conclusively enough but if Penreath was the murderer where had he got the umbrella with which he shielded himself from the storm? The fact that the murderer carried an umbrella is proved by the discovery of a small patch of umbrella silk which had got caught on a nail by the window.
He went further than that: he told her that he was engaged to be married, and that if he could get free he would marry her. A young man who talks in this strain is very much in love. The artless story of Peggy revealed that Penreath was as much in love with the girl as she was with him. 'If he could get free! That was the phrase that gave me the key to the mystery.
The only time I was really afraid was when one of you gentlemen asked me about the key in the outside of the door, but you passed it over and went on to something else. "And now you know the whole truth. But I should like to say that I kept silence about carrying the body away because I didn't think I was injuring anybody. I believed Mr. Penreath to be guilty. Now you tell me he is innocent.
Queensmead scrutinised the pocket-book and its contents, and on handing it back remarked: "Do you think Penreath returned and concealed himself in the wood to recover these notes?" Colwyn was struck by the penetration of this remark. "No, quite the contrary," he replied. "Your deduction is drawn from an isolated fact.
"I have been rightly punished for my stupidity and my folly," said Penreath. "I have wronged her beyond forgiveness." "You really have not much to blame yourself for except your obstinate silence. That was really too quixotic, even if things had been as you imagined. No man is justified in sacrificing his life foolishly. And you had much to live for. You had your duty to do in life.
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