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The unpleasant episode of the stains on Muriel Tredworth's dress had, although there was no indication of attaching serious importance to them, nevertheless cast an uncomfortable shadow over the happiness of her betrothal, and without giving any specific reason she had declared for a postponement of the wedding, for which there was, after all, a quite natural reason.
But that fellow can take care of himself; and when you come to think of it, his coming down here, an outsider, to the ball, was in itself rather fishy." Gifford agreed, and they fell to discussing the day's plans. Kelson was going to drive over to have the momentous interview with Miss Tredworth's father.
Henshaw put the question in a tone which had in it, Gifford thought, a touch of scepticism. "Oh, my sister must have been in here too," Morriston replied. "Or how could her dress have been stained? Unless, indeed, she brushed against Miss Tredworth's or someone else's. That's clear." There seemed no alacrity in Henshaw to accept the conclusion and he did not respond.
"Surely you never seriously entertained such an abominable idea." "You must admit, my dear Harry," Gifford replied calmly, "that with a man stabbed to death in practically the next room, the blood-stains on Miss Tredworth's dress were bound to give rise to conjecture. One would suspect an archbishop in a similar position. But that is all over now.
"Hardly by the idea that Miss Tredworth had anything to do with the late tragedy," was the quiet answer. "Good heavens, man, I should hope not," Kelson cried vehemently. "That is too monstrously absurd." "What is Miss Tredworth's idea?" "She has none. She is completely mystified. And inclined to be horribly frightened." "Naturally," Gifford commented in the same even tone.
For a moment his sister did not answer. "No; I don't think I was," she said, with what seemed to Gifford a certain amount of apprehension in her eyes, although her expression was calm enough. "Oh, but, my dear girl, you must have been," Morriston insisted vehemently. "We have found the explanation of the stains on Miss Tredworth's dress and on yours."
In answer to his companion's inquiry Morriston said that he had heard of nothing fresh in the Henshaw case. "I saw Major Freeman for a moment as he was leaving," he said, "and gathered that the police were still at a loss for any satisfactory explanation as to how the crime was committed." "He made no suggestion as to the stains on Miss Tredworth's dress?" Gifford asked. "No.
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