And Afy--but I won't curse her--fanned the flame against me by denying that any one had been there that night.

'She had been at home,' she said, 'and had strolled out at the back door, to the path that led from West Lynne, and was lingering there when she heard a shot.

Five minutes afterward she returned to the house, and found Locksley standing over her dead father.'" Mr.Carlyle remained silent, rapidly running over in his mind the chief points of Richard Hare's communication.

"Four of you, as I understand it, were in the vicinity of the cottage that night, and from one or the other the shot no doubt proceeded.

You were at a distance, you say, Richard; Bethel, also, could not have been--" "It was not Bethel who did it," interrupted Richard; "it was an impossibility.