"Her middle-aged appearance was a protection to the young lady who was so beautiful and so lonely, and she never suspected that her elderly maid was other than what she seemed.
"Jennie was contented to remain with her; but though she followed her like a shadow she never saw her base betrayer until the night of the murder.
"That night a small boy came to the dressing-room with that fatal letter.
"It was so unusual an occurrence that Jennie stealthily followed him out and saw where he had gone.
"Hidden behind the curtains of a window, she watched the man outside the western door.
"Almost at the moment that she recognized him she saw him spring to the door.
"She parted the curtains and saw the steel flashing in his hand, to be buried the next moment in the heart of the woman coming up to him."
He paused a moment at Captain Ernscliffe's hollow groan; then continued:
"Jennie told me that the wild scream of anguish that rose the next moment nearly broke her heart.
"She thought it was her dear, kind mistress whom he had killed, and she was filled with the fury of the tigress.