habit of visiting no by night and amusing herself by wandering about the empty rooms although i don t know what pleasure she found in doing so it seems that when clear became the tenant of the house was very angry as his presence interfered with her midnight however on seeing his rooms � for clear found her one night and took her in to show them to her � she was filled with admiration and with true instinct wanted to steal some of the ornaments she tried to pocket a silver paper knife on that very night clear was so hospitable to her but she was not sharp enough and the man saw the in a rage at her he turned her out of the room and swore that he would her if she came into his presence again did the threat keep away not it i am sure you saw enough of that wild o the silent house cat to know nothing would frighten her she certainly did not thrust herself personally on clear but whenever his back was turned she took to stealing things out of his room when he was foolish enough to leave the door open clear was much enraged and complained to � known to as � who in his turn read the girl a sharp lecture but having shown the into the house miss knew too much and laughed in s face he did not dare to make her public or complain to mrs lest should tell of the connection between him and the tenant of the silent house who passed under the name of therefore he told clear to keep his sitting room door locked a wise precaution with that about said i hope clear was sensible enough to adopt it yes and no when he was sober he locked the door and when drunk he left it open and at will and now comes the more important part of the confession you remember that left the from on clear s table yes with the amiable intention that the poor devil should kill himself he left it on christmas eve a pleasant time for a man to commit suicide of course the intention was horrible said mr link gravely some people might think such the silent house an act incredible but i have seen so much of the worst side of human nature that i am not surprised was too cowardly to kill the man himself so he thought to make clear his own by leaving the in his way well sir the weapon proved to be useful in the way it was intended by for clear was killed with that very weapon and by said nodding i see how did she get hold of it by accident when � i mean � and mrs went to bed on christmas eve thought she would have some of her devil dances in the haunted house so she slipped out of bed and into the yard and dropped down into the cellar whence she went up to clear s rooms was clear in bed no but he was in his bedroom and according to furiously drunk you know that said the man had been drinking all day on this night he had left his sitting room door open and the lamp burning on the table was the with the ribbon and when peered into the room to see what she could pick up she thought she would like this pretty toy she stole forward softly and took the but before she could get back to the door clear who had been watching her out and rushed at her did she run away she couldn t clear was between her and the o the silent house door she ran round the room everything for she thought he would kill her in his drunken rage don t you remember mr how the room was well clear got into a corner and was going to strike her she had the still in her hand and held it point outward to save herself from the blow she thought when he saw the weapon he would not dare to come nearer however either he did not see the or was too drunk to feel fear for he stumbled and fell forward so that the dagger ran right into his heart in a moment he fell dead before he had time as says to even utter a cry so it was an accident after all said oh yes quite an accident replied link and i can see very plainly how it took place of course was terrified at what she had although she really was not to blame � and leaving the dead man ran away with the she dropped the ribbon off it near the cellar door as she was running away and there mrs found it what did she do with the she had it in her room and when she left mrs she carried it with her down the country in proof of the truth she gave it to the who wrote down her confession and he sent it up with the papers to scotland yard queer case isn t it the silent house very queer link i thought everybody was guilty but ah said the significantly it is always the least suspected person who is guilty i could have sworn that was the man now it seems that he is innocent so instead of hanging he will only be imprisoned for his share in the conspiracy he may escape that way said but morally speaking i regard him as more guilty than chapter the end of it all two years after the discovery of s guilt mr and mrs were seated in the garden of it was a perfect summer evening at the sunset hour something like that evening when in the same garden almost at the same time had asked to be his wife but 