The appearance of these would only create confusion and perplexity--perhaps help his cause.

I'll destroy these and fling away the dagger in the wood.
They'll he sure to find it in a day or two.

They will make such a search that if a needle were lost it would be found." There was an old sunken well, half filled with slimy, green water, mud, and filth, in a remote end of the plantation.

Thither, unobserved, Sybilla made her way in the ghostly moonlight and flung her blood-stained bundle into its vile, poisonous depths.
"Lie there!" she muttered.

"You have done your work, and I fling you away, as I fling away all my tools at my pleasure.