“Then the helpless Templin’s life was sacrificed——”
“No! No! Great heavens! No! This Templin may have died a natural death,” cried Abbott.
“But he didn’t, as I’ll convince you soon. Templin was killed—poisoned, probably—and his body was produced before the Elmwood people as that of Mackenzie.
“Even you were deceived; but it didn’t deceive the dog.
“Meanwhile, Greene disappeared. He cut off his beard, cropped his hair, removed the dye from his face, and appeared in his real character as a comparatively young man.
“He had prepared for his advent in Elmwood in the character of his own son, by showing letters from the supposed young man written in London, Paris and other foreign cities.”
“Who wrote them?”
“One of his companions in crime—a man whose beard and hair of yellow hue had been dyed a sandy color. A man named Dent.”
“Where is he?”
“I haven’t found him yet, but expect to.