"Ah! he was two days absent, then?
"They are the two days in which he committed the crime of kidnapping and murder—"
"Murder? Great Heaven! of what else will you accuse me, Lomax?"
"Yes, of murder; for when poor Mrs. Raymond read the note left by Ruby, she fell in a faint, and she never came to herself again, but died, and four days ago I went to see her buried over in the village graveyard.
"Then I took your track, Schuyler Cluett, and I found out where you hired your team of fast horses, and where you drove to catch the train.
"There you bought two tickets for Baltimore, and I lost trace of you after I arrived in that city."
"You have tracked some other man, Lomax, for your sweetheart did not run off with me."
"And I say that I saw the man of whom you hired your horses, and he described you."
"Other men look like me, Lomax."