"Tell me plainly what you mean!" "I will," he said.

"Violet Campion's mother was a homicidal maniac.

She killed her husband--this girl's father--in a fit of madness one night three months after their marriage.

It happened in India, and was put down to native treachery in order to hush it up, but it was well known that no native was responsible for it.

During the six months that followed, she was kept under restraint, hopelessly insane.