But the face of the dead man was--as I thought--Mark's, and he called himself Berwin, which, you know, Diana, is the name of the Manor, and the scar was on the cheek.

I know now it was all contrived by Ercole; but then I was quite ignorant." "When did you find out the truth ?" "After that cloak business.

Ferruci came to me, and I told him what that girl at Baxter's had said, and insisted that he should tell me the truth.

Well, he did, in order to force me to marry him, and then I told him to go and make it right with the girl, so that when Mr.Denzil went again she'd deny that Ercole had bought the cloak." "She denied it, sure enough," said Lucian grimly.

"Ferruci, before he died, told me he had bribed her to speak falsely.