Will you take that for your answer and let me go ?" "Alas, madam, we cannot!" spoke up Mr.Gryce in his calm, benevolent way.
"Miss Duclos' death was of a nature demanding an inquest.

Your testimony, hard as it may be for you to give it, is necessary for a righteous verdict.

That is all we want--" "It is too much!" she cried.

And with a quick glance upward she took another step or two along the bridge till she had reached the broken rail; and before Sweetwater in his dismay could more than give a horrified bound in her direction, she had made the fatal leap and was gone from their sight into the gorge below..