"Because I do not believe you have even told her that Craik Mansell was on trial."
"Sir, you are a magician."
"Have you, madam?"
"No, sir, I have not."
"Very good; what does she know about Mr. Orcutt, then; and why should she connect his name with Mrs. Clemmens?"
"She knows he was her boarder, and that he was the first one to discover she had been murdered."
"That is not enough to account for her frequent repetition of his name."
"You think not?"
"I am sure not. Cannot your mother have some memories connected with his name of which you are ignorant?"
"No, sir; we have lived together in this house for twenty-five years, and have never had a thought we have not shared together. Ma could not have known any thing about him or Mary Ann which I did not. The words she has just spoken sprang from mental confusion. She is almost like a child sometimes."