"No one," replied Herne. "Though I might suspect Lovel."
"Oh," said Lucas, shrugging his shoulders, "are you going over the old ground again?"
"No, I am not," replied Herne. "I say again that I do not suspect you."
"And I ask again why have you changed your mind?" said Lovel. "I was with Milly when you fell into your trance, and I was absent when you came out of it. So far as you knew, no one else was in the lane, and you awoke from your senseless state to see Milly's dead body. On these grounds you can suspect me only."
"You state a very good case against yourself," sneered Herne. "Evidently you wish to be hanged!"
"No, but I wish to hang the villain who killed Milly. I can defend myself if needful. But can you defend Chaskin?"
"I would do so with my life! He is innocent."
"I'll have to hear that from his own lips," replied Lovel. "Myself and Mexton are on our way to see him. Will you come also?"
"No; Chaskin can defend himself. I have just left him, and he said nothing which leads me to doubt him."
"The pistol----"