"Come in, Cameron," said he, "you're just the man I want."
"Lorraine didn't keep his appointment with me," explained Cameron, as he entered. "And——"
"Lorraine is here!" Pendleton answered, drawing the other over to the living-room door.
"Good God!" was Cameron's amazed cry.—"Lorraine! and who is the other?—Amherst! Amherst! Dead!—what does it mean?"
"They both are dead," said Pendleton. "Lorraine killed Amherst with yonder candlestick—and then, a moment after, was stricken by apoplexy or a heart attack."
"You were here?" Cameron marvelled.
"I came in just as Amherst received the fatal blow.—Lorraine was explaining how it all happened when he himself was seized and died instantly."
"And Stephanie?"
Pendleton turned sharply to the butler, who was standing open-mouthed behind them, and said:—
"Tompkins, call up Dr. Hubbard at once and ask him to come over immediately."