“Yes.”
“How can you explain it?”
“I can’t do so yet; but if he was dead, and all the villains desired was his death, why on earth do they remove his body? If you can answer me that, I shall become a convert to your idea.”
“I cannot answer it, and yet he must be dead! Did not Timon say that he could not feel his master’s heart beat?”
“I believe he did say something to that effect, but that does not prove that he is dead.”
“Yet it appears to me to be quite sufficient, when taken in connection with other things.”
“That may be; but, as I said, where is the body? If they merely wanted him dead, their work was done when they accomplished the bloody deed, and they are not going to take the risk of getting away with a dead body unless there is some necessity for it.”
“Perhaps.”
“What is it?”
“He may have recognized them, and they have thought it necessary, he not having been killed by their blows, to take him away.”