Sir Everard shouted for lights and men.

'There has been a horrible murder done,' he said.

'Fetch lights and follow me!' and then we all rushed to the stone terrace." "And there you saw--what ?" "Nothing but blood.

It was stained and clotted with blood everywhere; and so was the railing, as though a bleeding body had been cast over into the sea.

On a projecting spike, as though torn off in the fall, we found my lady's India scarf." "You think, then, he cast the body over after the deed was done ?" "I am morally certain he did.