And what is more, I can identify her," I replied.

"Her name is Armida, and she was wife of the murdered man Olinto Santini." "Then both husband and wife were killed ?" "Without a doubt--a double tragedy." "But the two men who concealed the body! Will you describe them ?" I did so, and he wrote at my dictation, afterwards remarking-- "We must find them." And calling in one of his sub-inspectors, he gave him instructions for the immediate circulation of the description to all the police-stations in the county, saying the two men were wanted on a charge of willful murder.
When the official had gone out again and we were alone, Mackenzie turned to me and asked-- "What induced you to search the wood?
Why did you suspect a second crime ?" His question nonplused me for the moment.
"Well, you see, I had identified the young man Olinto, and knowing him to be married and devoted to his wife, I suspected that she had accompanied him here.

It was entirely a vague surmise.

I wondered whether, if the poor fellow had fallen a victim to his enemies, she had not also been struck down." His lips were pressed together in distinct dissatisfaction.

I knew my explanation to be a very lame one, but at all hazards I could not import Muriel's name into the affair.