Kilshaw looked, and read—"My wife and M."
"That's the deceased's handwriting?"
"Yes."
"And you know the persons?"
"I've no doubt about them. It's the Premier—and—and Mrs. Medland."
"Exactly. Now read this," and he gave him the copy of a certificate of marriage between George Benyon and Margaret Aspland.
"Quite so," nodded Kilshaw.
"And this."
Kilshaw took the slip of newspaper, old and yellow. It contained a few lines, briefly recording that Mrs. Benyon had left her home secretly by night, in her husband's absence, and could not be found.