"Nor, so far as I can see, is any one else able to throw any light on the subject.

Pine's secret was not a dishonorable one, as he was such an upright man that no one could have desired to kill him." Apparently there was no solution to the mystery, as every one concluded, when the evidence was fully threshed out.

An open verdict was brought in, and the proceedings ended in this unsatisfactory manner.
"Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," said Lambert, when he read the report of the inquest in his St.James's Street rooms.
"Strange.

I wonder who cut the Gordian knot of the rope which bound Agnes to Pine ?" He could find no reply to this question, nor could any one else..