He was too cunning to do this--too cunning to say anything about his relations, when I tried to turn the talk that way next.

On the other hand, he spoke with a revolting readiness of the crime that he had committed, and of his settled resolution to destroy himself if Miss Laroche refused to be his wife.

"I have nothing else to live for; I am alone in the world," he said.

"Even my servant has deserted me.

He knows how I killed Lionel Varleigh." He paused and spoke his next words in a whisper to me.