9/11 He was not a capricious man.' "It is impossible that my uncle could have cast a shade of suspicion on me, in regard to that affair," said Lionel. At the moment of its occurrence, when nobody could tell whom to suspect, I remember a word or two were dropped which caused me to assure him _I_ was not the guilty party, and he stopped me. He would not allow me even to speak of defence; he said he cast no suspicion on me." "Well, it is a great mystery," said Mr.Bitterworth. |