I know nothing of the murder.

My letter is sheer bluff to extort from you five thousand pounds.

Had you paid I should have passed it off to the Professor as the money left to me by my brother.

But now--" "Now," said Random, rising to go, "I shall tell what you have told me to the Professor, and--" "And hand me over to the police," said Mrs.Jasher, shrugging her plump shoulders, "Well, I expected that.

Yet I fancied for old times' sake that you might have been more lenient." "We were never anything but acquaintances, Mrs.Jasher," said Random coldly, "so I fail to see why you should expect mercy after the way in which you have behaved.