with scorn i should leave you to s tender as it is i must consider now no more talk if you please let me know exactly what took place between you and that thief did not argue further not that he felt any shame but he saw that was too strong for him and felt that his cousin had right on his side would never have admitted the right as his nature was too to honor to anyone but himself in a sulky manner and as if was trying to do him harm instead of good he related what had passed between himself and the at the arms the squire thus learned for the first time that had been in the grounds on the night of the murder and had lost the setting a trap � ornament during the struggle with the unknown man in the avenue and i believed that the fellow was you protested earnestly you had every right to murder every right echoed angrily i mean every reason said himself hurriedly and after the man ran away i went to look in through the windows there was a light in the study and as you know the window had neither curtains nor blinds i saw lying dead on the floor and went home without saying a word lest i should be accused you acted the part of a brave man i must say said contemptuously but it appears that you didn t murder no i certainly did not why i only left this cottage as the church clock eleven and as was murdered at that hour he must have been dead before i reached the i expect the man was hunting for the will and only managed to escape with it when i ran up against him in the avenue but who was he i don t suppose mrs dressed herself as a man to no no that is ridiculous mrs was made a by the same man to get the will without throwing suspicions on him i didn t write that letter if that is what you mean said and uneasily i am aware of that it was who started to his feet impossible he was in town on the night of the murder he was in and he was the man you ran across in the avenue said grimly no wonder he pointed out your on the verge of the hole the lost wherein the will had been buried he dropped it there while my back was turned and allowed me to find it so as to you was he muttered sitting down again oh it is impossible not at all dr came down with in the train which arrives at shortly after nine he wasn t with him you understand but he saw him both at liverpool street and at then why didn t say so at the why should he never connected with the crime he believed that he came down to see me and as was with me the next day of course that gave color to s belief however he mentioned the matter to and she told me and for that reason came to see me yesterday and we arranged that i should see you now you can understand that we must join forces to have arrested i have not the least doubt but what he murdered to get the will and money for it either from you or from me the scoundrel cried highly indignant and to think that he should have dared to accuse me � me � me i was in equal danger of being accused observed coolly oh i don t care about you retorted the other i must look to myself i shall see and have arrested if you do you are sure to make a mess of things warned accepting his cousin s with a shrug we must lay a trap for and get him down here otherwise he may escape and then setting a trap � i matters concerning the murder will never be cleared up what sort of a trap you must write to asking him to come down here � to the big house � for an interview with yourself and with me say that you and i wish to the rights of the property knows that you cannot give him his pound of flesh until we are agreed about the will also he will never suspect that he was seen in on the night of the murder or that we have put two and two together regarding the he will come down will he enter the big house seeing that you have kicked him out asked the host doubtfully oh has no shame where his own interests are concerned replied the squire quietly he wants money and is prepared to go to any to get money let us get him to ourselves and force him to confess meanwhile we will send to for and when the arrives we can have arrested do you understand yes said in a rather subdued tone for him at the moment i shall write as you suggest and you may be sure that i shall so word my letter as to trap the beast what a scoundrel cried in a state of virtuous anger to try and accuse me of a crime which he has committed himself he looks after number one as other people do self self is eaten up with self no wonder i hate the human race when i get the money i shan t give anyone a single penny the lost oh i am aware of that rejoined contemptuously and i shouldn t throw stones at other people if i were you seeing in what a glass house you live yourself now don t argue but do what i tell you if you don t i shall wash my hands of the whole affair and leave you to yourself as best you 