"And you are going to try to bring it home to this man?"
"I don't know. The police may save me the trouble. I believe they are on the same scent at last. Meanwhile, I have given him as fair a warning as a man could wish."
Severino lay back yet again in silence and deep twilight. His breath came quickly. A shiver seemed to pass through the bed.
"You needn't have done that," he whispered at last.
"I thought it was the fair thing to do."
"Yet you needn't have done it—because—your first idea was right!"
"I'll tell you who I thought it was at first," said he, heartily.