"At least, not as you intend! Beware, beware, I say, of driving me to extremities! I still see in you the woman I loved; I still offer you what lies within my power: to let everything end for the best for you...." "For me! Then I, too, am to suffer for your guilt ?" "Did you hear the barking of hounds just now ?" "I heard dogs yelping." "Very well .-- Your freedman has been brought in, the pack got on his scent and have now been let into the house close to the tablinum.

The dogs would not stir beyond the threshold and on the white marble step, towards the right-hand side, the print of a man's foot was found in the dust.

It is a peculiar one, for instead of five toes there are but three.

Your Hiram was fetched in, and he was found to have the same number of toes as the mark on the marble, neither more nor less.

A horse trod on his foot, in your father's stable, and two of his toes had to be cut off: we got this out of the stammering wretch with some difficulty .-- On the other side of the door-way there was a smaller print, but though the dogs paid no heed to that I examined it, and assured myself--how, I need not tell you--that it was you who had stood there.