Your sister may not have died entirely from strangulation; other causes may have been at work!" "Now, what do you mean by that ?" Arthur Cumberland was under his own roof and in presence of one who should have inspired his respect; but he made no effort to hide the fury which these words called up.

"I should like to know what deviltry is in your minds now.

Am I never to have peace ?" "Peace and tragedy do not often run together," came in the mild tones of his would-be friend.

"A great crime has taken place.

All the members of this family are involved--to say nothing of the man who lies, now, under the odium of suspicion, in our common county jail.