Munro would have interposed, but, this time, the murderer was too quick for him, if not too strong.

With a sudden rush he flung his associate aside, stooped down, and smote--smote fatally.
"Kate!--ah!--O God, have mercy!" The wretched and unsuspecting victim fell back upon the earth with these last words--dead--sent to his dread account, with all his sins upon his head! And what a dream of simple happiness in two fond, feeble hearts, was thus cruelly and terribly dispersed for ever!.