"I cannot tell you.

I will have no more to do with it.

The matter is over--let it rest," "But, my poor boy," she said quietly, "it will not be allowed to rest.
Can't you see that this girl's statement does away with the theory that he was washed up from the sea?
He met with his death there on the sands.

He left Braster to visit you, and he was found within a few yards of your cottage dead, and with marks of violence upon him.

You will be suspected, perhaps charged.