Her fidelity turned in an instant to bitter hatred, and he saw that she would betray him.

He tied her up, therefore, that she might have no chance of warning Sir Henry, and he hoped, no doubt, that when the whole countryside put down the baronet's death to the curse of his family, as they certainly would do, he could win his wife back to accept an accomplished fact and to keep silent upon what she knew.

In this I fancy that in any case he made a miscalculation, and that, if we had not been there, his doom would none the less have been sealed.

A woman of Spanish blood does not condone such an injury so lightly.

And now, my dear Watson, without referring to my notes, I cannot give you a more detailed account of this curious case.