“You swear that he said this—on your oath?”
“On my oath!”
“Harborough said—to you—that it was due to Guy Markenmore that he, Harborough, had lost his chance with you, and that if he ever met Guy again, however long it might be, he’d shoot him like a dog?”
“Yes. That is precisely what he said.”
“I take it, then, that at that time Harborough was passionately in love with you?”
“Madly, I believe!” murmured Mrs. Tretheroe. “He acted like a madman. I was afraid of him.”
“When this threat was made had Guy Markenmore gone away from here?”
“Oh, yes—some little time before.”
“And did Harborough go soon after?”
“He went away a few days before I was married.”