[The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret Passage CHAPTER XVI 12/29
It will be either the gallows or marriage with you. Of course she could not kill the woman herself, but her aunt, Mrs. Herne--" "She was out of the house an hour before the blow was struck." "Quite so," rejoined Jennings dryly, "but she may have come back again. However, the main point is, that Maraquito in some way is working with Mrs.Octagon on this basis to prevent your marriage.
In this way they have impressed Miss Saxon that you are guilty, and they have shown her this knife.
This evidence she retained in order to save you and at the price of her marriage." "It might be so," said Mallow, dazed with this view of the case.
"I certainly seem to be in a hole.
If I could see Juliet--but her mother prevents me." "I have a plan to bring you together.
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