Say you killed Lot Gordon with it again!" Madelon snatched the knife out of her brother's hand and looked at it with straining eyes.

There, indeed, was a rude "R.

H." cut in the horn handle.

She gasped.

"What does this mean ?" she cried out.
"It means you have lost your wits," answered Richard, contemptuously; but his eyes on his sister's face were full of pleading agony.
"What knife did you give me when I started home last night ?" "I gave you no knife." Old Luke Basset asserted himself again.