In choosing a weapon, I wished to select one that would implicate Ferruci rather than myself, in case there was any trouble over the matter; so I chose for my purpose a stiletto which hung by a parti-coloured ribbon on the walls of the library at Berwin Manor.

I fancied that the stiletto, having been bought in Florence, and Ferruci coming from Florence, he, if anyone--should any of these facts come to light--would be credited with giving it to Clear.
"I took this stiletto from Berwin Manor some time before Christmas, and, bringing it up to town, I left it, on the day before Christmas, on the table in Clear's sitting-room.

That was at nine o'clock in the night, and that was when I last saw him alive.

Who killed him I know no more than any one else.
"On Christmas Eve I was ill, and wrote to Lydia to come up.

She met me at the Pegalls', but as I felt ill, I left there at six o'clock, and Lydia stayed with the family all night.