"How do you mean false?"
"Brand," said Arnold, keeping his eyes on the other man's face, "was married to another woman and under another name--probably his real name. Bocaros found this out."
"How do you prove that?"
"By the diary, which is kept up to the very day my miserable cousin went to the house where her husband posed as a married man."
"Go on," said Fane very calm.
"It was at this time Brand came back."
"I thought you said he had gone to Australia."
"So he had," explained Arnold; "but he told Flora that he had heard of Brand's death, and had not thought it worth while to go on. Flora told him she had the money, and then accused him of being married. He denied this. There was a great row, and Brand left the house. Bocaros came back. He insisted that what he said about the second marriage was true, but he refused to tell Flora the real name of her husband. He said, however, that he would take her to the house. He advised her to obtain an impression of the key in Brand's pocket, so that she might prove to herself by the key fitting that the house was her husband's. The plan commended itself to Flora. When Brand returned she pretended to believe his lies, and took an impression of the key when he was asleep. This she gave to Bocaros, who got a duplicate key made. He gave her this. Brand then thinking all was right with Flora, departed. Flora arranged to meet Bocaros at the house of Brand on the night of the 24th of July."
Fane rose with a white face, and began to walk to and fro. "Go on," he said harshly; "what more?"
"Is there anything more to tell?" said Arnold, also rising. "Flora went to your house. Whether she met Bocaros there or not I cannot say. Her diary is written up to the time she set out on that last journey. Before leaving, and thinking she might be in danger, she hid the diary, and left a note for me in the deed-box at Laing and Merry's, the lawyers. But she went to the house before nine, she admitted herself with the duplicate latch-key, and in the White Room, which really and truly had been furnished for her, she met with----"