CHAPTER XXXI.
FOUND GUILTY.
There was the silence of death.

Men looked blankly in each other's faces, then at the prisoner.

With an awfully corpse-like face, and wild, dilated eyes, he sat staring at the witness--struck dumb.
The silence was broken by the lawyer.
"This is a very extraordinary statement, Miss Silver," he said.

"Are you quite certain of its truth?
It is an understood thing that the late Captain Hunsden was a widower." "He was nothing of the sort.

It suited his purpose to be thought so.
Captain Hunsden was a very proud man.