“Never,” contradicted Kent. “You’ve misinterpreted what I said. In the early stages of the affair I told you, if you remember, that a very bizarre situation indicated a very bizarre motive. What could be more bizarre than insanity?”
“Was it suicidal insanity, then?” asked Bain.
“Not in the ordinary and intentional sense.”
“Then it was the other man that killed her,” said Preston Jax; “the man I heard yell, when she went over. But what became of him?”
“Simon P. Groot spoke of hearing that man’s scream, too,” confirmed Bain. “Have you got any clue to him, Professor Kent?”
“The other man was Francis Sedgwick,” declared Alexander Blair doggedly.
Chester Kent shook his head.
“I’ve got a witness against that theory, from your own side, Mr. Blair,” said he. “Gansett Jim at first thought as you do. In that belief he tried to kill Mr. Sedgwick. Now he knows his mistake. Isn’t that so, Jim?”
“Yeh,” grunted the half-breed.
“You were out through the countryside that night trying to trace the wanderer.”