3/29 You've got the laugh on your side now; but I can tell you you wouldn't have had it then if you knew the way I followed you up. Yes"-- and here came a shadow of his own sinister smile--"I made it all fit in like a puzzle. Did you never miss a letter you had that day you called at the York post- office--a letter about the dead burying their dead, and young Forrester? I took that letter out of your pocket. And I know where you buried his body; do you suppose I didn't see you throw yourself on the very place and say, `It was here'? |