His first words were, as if he spoke in spite of himself: 'Blood! blood! Good God, it is hers! She is murdered!'" "You say he offered no explanation then.

Did he afterward ?" "I believe so.

Not to me, but to others.

He said his foot slipped on the stone terrace, and his hand splashed in a pool of something--his wife's blood." "Can you relate what followed ?" "There was the wildest confusion.

Claudine fainted.