"He was a strongman," he went on, "and she was a girl, weak, but not wanton ...

and so she died, telling me, loving me--so she died, and so he died, too, in the woods with his gun in his hand.

Yes, 'twas done with his own gun--by accident--by accident! He stumbled, and the gun went off.

That was the story at the inquest.

No one knew I was there.