You will believe this ?" "Yes," and she extended her hand.

"I have been very wrong; you must forgive me.

But how could he have been killed?
Who could have had a motive ?" "Had Le Gaire no enemies ?" "Not to my knowledge.

I know little of his life, yet surely there could be no one here--in this house--who would deliberately seek to kill him.
No one would have opportunity except one of your own men." I confess it appeared that way to me also, and the fact only served to make the mystery more baffling.

I knew personally every soldier under my command, and was certain no man among them had ever so much as seen Le Gaire previous to the night before.