"You knew I stabbed you, and not yourself.

You are a liar, Lot Gordon." But Lot still smiled as he answered her.

"However it may be with other men, no happening has come to me since I set foot upon this earth that I brought not upon myself by my own deeds.

The hand that set the knife in my side was my own, and I have not lied." "You have lied.

Tell them the truth." "I have told the truth that lies at the bottom of the well." "Call them all in now, and tell them--I--did it, I--" Lot Gordon raised himself a little, and looked at her with the mocking expression gone suddenly from his face.