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Even
Stapleton
's
attempt
upon
Sir
Henry
that
night
which
ended
in
the
death
of
the
unfortunate
convict
did
not
help
us
much
in
proving
murder
against
our
man
.
There
seemed
to
be
no
alternative
but
to
catch
him
red-handed
,
and
to
do
so
we
had
to
use
Sir
Henry
,
alone
and
apparently
unprotected
,
as
a
bait
.
We
did
so
,
and
at
the
cost
of
a
severe
shock
to
our
client
we
succeeded
in
completing
our
case
and
driving
Stapleton
to
his
destruction
.
That
Sir
Henry
should
have
been
exposed
to
this
is
,
I
must
confess
,
a
reproach
to
my
management
of
the
case
,
but
we
had
no
means
of
foreseeing
the
terrible
and
paralyzing
spectacle
which
the
beast
presented
,
nor
could
we
predict
the
fog
which
enabled
him
to
burst
upon
us
at
such
short
notice
.
We
succeeded
in
our
object
at
a
cost
which
both
the
specialist
and
Dr.
Mortimer
assure
me
will
be
a
temporary
one
.
A
long
journey
may
enable
our
friend
to
recover
not
only
from
his
shattered
nerves
but
also
from
his
wounded
feelings
.
His
love
for
the
lady
was
deep
and
sincere
,
and
to
him
the
saddest
part
of
all
this
black
business
was
that
he
should
have
been
deceived
by
her
.
"
It
only
remains
to
indicate
the
part
which
she
had
played
throughout
.
There
can
be
no
doubt
that
Stapleton
exercised
an
influence
over
her
which
may
have
been
love
or
may
have
been
fear
,
or
very
possibly
both
,
since
they
are
by
no
means
incompatible
emotions
.
It
was
,
at
least
,
absolutely
effective
.
At
his
command
she
consented
to
pass
as
his
sister
,
though
he
found
the
limits
of
his
power
over
her
when
he
endeavoured
to
make
her
the
direct
accessory
to
murder
.
She
was
ready
to
warn
Sir
Henry
so
far
as
she
could
without
implicating
her
husband
,
and
again
and
again
she
tried
to
do
so
.
Stapleton
himself
seems
to
have
been
capable
of
jealousy
,
and
when
he
saw
the
baronet
paying
court
to
the
lady
,
even
though
it
was
part
of
his
own
plan
,
still
he
could
not
help
interrupting
with
a
passionate
outburst
which
revealed
the
fiery
soul
which
his
self-contained
manner
so
cleverly
concealed
.
By
encouraging
the
intimacy
he
made
it
certain
that
Sir
Henry
would
frequently
come
to
Merripit
House
and
that
he
would
sooner
or
later
get
the
opportunity
which
he
desired
.
On
the
day
of
the
crisis
,
however
,
his
wife
turned
suddenly
against
him
.
She
had
learned
something
of
the
death
of
the
convict
,
and
she
knew
that
the
hound
was
being
kept
in
the
out-house
on
the
evening
that
Sir
Henry
was
coming
to
dinner
.
She
taxed
her
husband
with
his
intended
crime
,
and
a
furious
scene
followed
,
in
which
he
showed
her
for
the
first
time
that
she
had
a
rival
in
his
love
.
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
country-side
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
can
not
give
you
a
more
detailed
account
of
this
curious
case
.
I
do
not
know
that
anything
essential
has
been
left
unexplained
.
"
"
He
could
not
hope
to
frighten
Sir
Henry
to
death
as
he
had
done
the
old
uncle
with
his
bogie
hound
.
"
"
The
beast
was
savage
and
half-starved
.
If
its
appearance
did
not
frighten
its
victim
to
death
,
at
least
it
would
paralyze
the
resistance
which
might
be
offered
.
"
"
No
doubt
.
There
only
remains
one
difficulty
.
If
Stapleton
came
into
the
succession
,
how
could
he
explain
the
fact
that
he
,
the
heir
,
had
been
living
unannounced
under
another
name
so
close
to
the
property
?
How
could
he
claim
it
without
causing
suspicion
and
inquiry
?
"
"
It
is
a
formidable
difficulty
,
and
I
fear
that
you
ask
too
much
when
you
expect
me
to
solve
it
.
The
past
and
the
present
are
within
the
field
of
my
inquiry
,
but
what
a
man
may
do
in
the
future
is
a
hard
question
to
answer
.
Mrs.
Stapleton
has
heard
her
husband
discuss
the
problem
on
several
occasions
.
There
were
three
possible
courses
.
He
might
claim
the
property
from
South
America
,
establish
his
identity
before
the
British
authorities
there
and
so
obtain
the
fortune
without
ever
coming
to
England
at
all
;
or
he
might
adopt
an
elaborate
disguise
during
the
short
time
that
he
need
be
in
London
;
or
,
again
,
he
might
furnish
an
accomplice
with
the
proofs
and
papers
,
putting
him
in
as
heir
,
and
retaining
a
claim
upon
some
proportion
of
his
income
.
We
can
not
doubt
from
what
we
know
of
him
that
he
would
have
found
some
way
out
of
the
difficulty
.
And
now
,
my
dear
Watson
,
we
have
had
some
weeks
of
severe
work
,
and
for
one
evening
,
I
think
,
we
may
turn
our
thoughts
into
more
pleasant
channels
.
I
have
a
box
for
'
Les
Huguenots
.
'
Have
you
heard
the
De
Reszkes
?
Might
I
trouble
you
then
to
be
ready
in
half
an
hour
,
and
we
can
stop
at
Marcini
's
for
a
little
dinner
on
the
way
?
"