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Updated: June 12, 2025
It took place here, and I killed him. And then I had, as I imagined quite wrongly, as I know now overwhelming evidence that what he had told me was true, and I went mad." Briefly he told the story of Tremayne's descent from Lady O'Moy's balcony and the rest. "I scarcely know," he resumed, "what it was I hoped to accomplish in the end.
Words followed, and then some one Lady O'Moy, I think, and as I imagine with intent to soothe the feelings of Count Samoval, which appeared to be ruffled appealed to his vanity by mentioning the fact that he was himself a famous swordsman. To this Captain Tremayne's observation was a rather unfortunate one, although I must confess that I was fully in sympathy with it at the time.
The old wound which that gossip had dealt him then was reopened now. He thought of Tremayne's manifest concern for Una; he remembered how in that very room some six weeks ago, when Butler's escapade had first been heard of, it was from avowed concern for Una that Tremayne had urged him to befriend and rescue his rascally brother-in-law.
"And the provocation in this instance was, of course, of the slightest. Since you have heard Captain Tremayne's story of course you'll have no difficulty in confirming it." "If you still can doubt, O'Moy," said Tremayne, "it must be because you wish to doubt; because you are afraid to face the truth now that it has been placed before you.
But what moved him most was the touch of Tremayne's hand upon his shoulder, and Tremayne's voice bidding him brace himself to face the situation and count upon them to stand by him to the end. He looked up at his friend and secretary in an amazement that overcame his shame. "You can forgive me, Ned?" Ned looked across at Sylvia Armytage.
The only one to avail himself of the invitation was Carruthers, who, out of his friendship and concern for Tremayne and a conviction of Tremayne's innocence begotten chiefly by that friendship desired to bring out anything that might tell in his favour. "What was Captain Tremayne's bearing when he spoke to you and to Sir Terence?" "Quite as usual, sir." "He was quite calm, not at all perturbed?"
The rope ladder, Sir Terence's swift glance observed, had disappeared. He halted in his advance, standing at gaze a moment. He had hardly expected so much. He had conceived the plan of causing the house to be searched immediately upon Mullins's discovery of the body. But Tremayne's rashness in adventuring down in this fashion spared him even that necessity. True, it set up other difficulties.
Sir Harry paused and then added "The court will be glad to hear you in answer to the further evidence adduced to refute your statement in your own defence." "I have nothing further to say, sir," was Tremayne's answer. "Nothing further?" The president seemed aghast. "Nothing, sir." And now Colonel Fletcher leaned forward to exhort him.
Later in the day, after Captain Stanhope had taken his departure, the duty fell to Tremayne of framing the general order and seeing to the dispatch of a copy to each division. "I wonder," he said to Sir Terence, "who will be the first to break it?" "Why, the fool who's most anxious to be broke himself," answered Sir Terence. There appeared to be reservations about it in Tremayne's mind.
He remembered, too, with increasing bitterness that it was Una herself had induced him to appoint Tremayne to his staff. There were moments when the conviction of Tremayne's honesty, the thought of Tremayne's unswerving friendship for himself, would surge up to combat and abate the fires of his devastating jealousy.
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