'I'm sure you drove him to it!' 'I'll bear the responsibility of having rid the world of him, if I did.

But my share consisted in having given him opium and then stopped it suddenly, till he surrendered and told the truth--or a large part of it--what I have told you already.

He would not own that he killed Miss Bamberger himself with the rusty little knife that had a few red silk threads sticking to the handle.

He must have put it back into his case of instruments as it was, and he never had the courage to look at it again.

He had studied medicine, I believe.