"I can learn details concerning the murder later.

Go on." "I know nothing of the murder or of the theft of the emeralds--" "Yet you hid the mummy in this house, and afterwards placed it in your arbor to be found by the Professor, for some reason." "I know nothing about that either," muttered Mrs.Jasher doggedly, and with very white lips.

"That letter you have traced to me is all bluff." "Then you admit having written it ?" "Yes," she said sullenly.

"You know too much, and it is useless for me to deny the truth in the face of the evidence you bring against me.

I would fight though," she added, raising her head like a snake its crest, "if I was not sick and tired of fighting." "Fighting ?" "Yes, against trouble and worry and money difficulties and creditors.
Oh," she struck her breast, "what do you know of life, you rich, easy-going man?
I have been in the depths, and not through my own fault.
I had a bad mother, a bad husband.