"Nothing. It was what you said yourself after the man had gone."
"And what did I say, Miss Dare?"
She cast him a look of the faintest appeal, but answered quietly:
"Something about its not being the tramp who had committed this crime."
"That surprised you?"
"That made me start."
"Miss Dare, were you present in the house when the dying woman spoke the one or two exclamations which have been testified to in this trial?"
"Yes, sir."
"What was the burden of the first speech you heard?"
"The words Hand, sir, and Ring. She repeated the two half a dozen times."