Who would be likely to connect him with the death of a beast-tamer in a circus, who had perished in what would appear an accident of his calling?
Ah, yes, the lion's smile was a clever idea--he was a sharp rascal to think of it." "Sir! You--you do not mean to tell me that he caused that?
He never went near the beast--never--even once." "Not necessary, chevalier.

He kept near you and your children; that was all that he needed to do to carry out his plan.

The lion was as much his victim as anybody else--you or your children.

What it did it could not help doing.

The very simplicity of the plan was its passport to success.
All that was required was the unsuspected sifting of snuff on the hair of the person whose head was to be put in the beast's mouth.