I cut it out myself, and attempted to thank him.

He wouldn't hear me.

"Go away!" he said, "I don't like the look of you." It may be here objected that I ought not to have felt so sure as I did of the woman's guilt, until I had got more evidence against her.

The knife might have been stolen from her, supposing she was the person who had snatched it out of the engraver's hands, and might have been afterward used by the thief to commit the murder.

All very true.