It is an old collar, with hanging pieces as well as those of the collar proper. They are very fine ones, if that is any justification to anything. It is one of my most valued treasures-an ermine collar studded with emeralds. “Perhaps you have noticed-of course, I do not blame if you have not men are not supposed to remember such trivial things-a fur collar I occasionally wear-or rather wore, it is now.
She explained simply, sweetly, and seeming to say what she could in the man’s favour, but doubly damning him whilst she did so. You know that women do not reason-we know-that he meant to seize that occasion also for stealing my emeralds.” If he had known you had a revolver, he would have tried to get that also, I am sure. The more I think of it, the more apparent it seems to me that he had premeditated the whole thing-of course, except his own horrible death. I shall eternally see his evil eyes as he threw himself into that well-hole in a vain effort to escape from the inevitable consequences of his own misdoing. His black, malignant face will shut out all memory of sunshine and happiness. That awful man-I shall see him for ever in my dreams. You really must let me thank you for the friendliness, the help, the confidence, the real aid at a time of deadly danger and deadly fear which you showed me. This I ask with confidence, for since we shared together the danger-the very pangs-of death, I feel that we should be to one another something more than mere friends, that I may lean on you and trust you, assured that your sympathy and pity are for me. Forgive me if you can, and do not think too hardly of me. I am grieved beyond measure that I should be, however partially or remotely, a cause of this shock and horror coming on you. I find it difficult even to write my hands shake so that they are not under control, and I am trembling all over with memory of the horrors we saw enacted before our eyes. The fact is that I am quite upset and unnerved by all that has happened in this terrible night. Indeed, you must also forgive me if, in trying to do what is right, I err in saying too much or too little. SALTON,-I cannot go to bed until I have written to you, so you must forgive me if I disturb you, and at an unseemly time.
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He read it over carefully several times, before he was satisfied that he had taken in its full import. It was from Lady Arabella, and was evidently intended to put him on his guard as to what he should say about the previous evening. The maid brought up, with his early morning cup of tea, a note which had been found in the letter-box.
Strangely enough he slept well, and awoke at dawn with his mind clear and his nerves in their usual unshaken condition. He did not say anything to him then of what had happened, but contented himself with arranging that they would walk together in the early morning, as he had much to say that would require serious attention. When Adam got home after his walk, he found Sir Nathaniel just going to bed. It was with an immense sense of relief that Adam heard that he had telegraphed to the housekeeper that he was detained by business at Walsall, where he would remain for the night and that he would be back in the morning in time for breakfast. Salton would certainly not be satisfied at being treated as an outsider with regard to such things, most of which had points of contact with the interior of his own house. Now there were examples of half the crimes in the calender, of which there was already indispensible proof, together with dark and bloody mysteries, enough to shake the nerves of the whole country-side. At first there had only been inferences from circumstances altogether outside his uncle and his household. He might take umbrage that he had not been consulted or, at least, told of the earlier happenings. He was a little embarrassed as to telling his uncle, for already affairs had so vastly progressed beyond his original view that he felt a little doubtful as to what would be the old gentleman’s attitude when he should hear of the strange events for the first time. ADAM SALTON WENT for a walk before returning to Lesser Hill he felt that it might be well, not only to steady his nerves, shaken by the horrible scene, but to get his thoughts into some sort of order, so as to be ready to enter on the matter with Sir Nathaniel.
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