"I will tell you. It was found in the old cellar, embedded in the mud, close beside the dead body of John Burrill."


"It was found beside the body of John Burrill."


Frank Lamotte's hands go up to his head, his pale face becomes livid, his eyes seem starting from their sockets; he gasps, staggers, falls heavily in a dead faint.


CHAPTER XLIII.

JUSTICE, SACRIFICE, DEATH.