I had no hand in her murder, if murder it is found out to be.

My story which you have read in the papers and which I felt forced to give out, possibly to my own shame and that of another whom I would fain have saved, is an absolutely true one.

I did not arrive at The Whispering Pines until after Miss Cumberland was dead.

To this I am ready to swear and it is upon this fact you must rely, in any defence you may hereafter be called upon to make in my regard." He listened as a lawyer would be apt to listen to such statements from the man who had summoned him to his aid.

But I saw that I had made no impression on his convictions.