Now I have made a clean breast of it--I am willing to be punished; but I hope Lydia will be set free, for whosoever is guilty, she is innocent.

I have been an unlucky man, and I remain one at this moment when I sign myself for the last time, JABEZ CLYNE." * * * * * Needless to say, both Link and Denzil were greatly surprised at this confession, which revealed all things save the one they wished to know.
"What do you think of this idea of suicide ?" asked Lucian.
"It is quite out of the question," replied the detective decidedly.

"The doctor who examined the body said that it was impossible the man could have committed suicide.

The position of the wound shows that; also the power of the stroke.

No man could drive a stiletto so dexterously and strongly into the heart.