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"I don't understand you"

"You will understandfor the late Mrs Eustace as a happy mixture of respect and affection I can tell you it was atoward her than that I have my information from the poor lady herself--who honored me with her confidence and friendship for the best part of her life Before she married Mr Macallan--she kept it a secret from him, and you had better keep it a secret too--Miserrimus Dexter was in love with her Miserrimus Dexter asked her--deformed as he was, seriously asked her--to be his wife"

"And in the face of that," I cried, "you say that he poisoned her!"

"I do I see no other conclusion possible, after what happened during your visit to hi fit What was he afraid of?"

I tried hard to find an answer to that I even e where ht lead me

Mr Dexter is an old and true friend of an "When he heard ht have felt alarht have felt alar the inquiry," said Mr Play the sentence for me "Rather far-fetched, Mrs Eustace; and not very consistent with your faith in your husband's innocence Clear your mind of one mistake," he continued, seriously, "whichyour present course Miserrimus Dexter, you may take my word for it, ceased to be your husband's friend on the day when your husband rant you, both in public and in private His evidence in his friend's favor at the Trial was given with the deep feeling which everybody expected fro under the surface, that Mr Macallan has no bitterer ene than Miserrimus Dexter"

He turned ht My husband had wooed and won the woe Was Dexter the ive that? My own experience answered me, and said, No "Bear in mind what I have told you," Mr Playet on to your own position in this matter, and to the interests that you have at stake Try to adopt my point of view for theany further advance toward a discovery of the truth It is one thing to be morally convinced (as I aht to have been tried for the , at this distance of time, to lay our hands on the plain evidence which can alone justify anything like a public assertion of his guilt There, as I see it, is the insuperable difficulty in the case Unless I am completely mistaken, the question is now narrowed to this plain issue: The public assertion of your husband's innocence depends entirely on the public assertion of Dexter's guilt How are you to arrive at that result? There is not a particle of evidence against him You can only convict Dexter on Dexter's own confession Are you listening to me?"