There, sir, I have told you the whole story of the events which led up to the murder of Lord Mannering by his wife upon the night of September the 14th, in the year 1894. Perhaps you will put my statement on one side as the constable did at Mannering Towers, or the judge afterwards at the county assizes. Or perhaps you will see that there is the ring of truth in what I say, and you will follow it up, and so make your name for ever as a man who does not grudge personal trouble where justice is to be done. I have only you to look to, sir, and if you will clear my name of this false accusation, then I will worship you as one man never yet worshipped another. But if you fail me, then I give you my solemn promise that I will rope myself up, this day month, to the bar of my window, and from that time on I will come to plague you in your dreams if ever yet one man was able to come back and to haunt another. What I ask you to do is very simple. Make inquiries about this woman, watch her, learn her past history, find out what use she is making of the money which has come to her, and whether there is not a man Edward as I have stated. If from all this you learn anything which shows you her real character, or which seems to you to corroborate the story which I have told you, then I am sure that I can rely upon your goodness of heart to come to the rescue of an innocent man. THE END PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIR A. CONAN DOYLE’S WORKS. =SIR NIGEL.= With Illustrations by ARTHUR TWIDLE. Third Impression. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ =THE TRAGEDY OF THE ‘KOROSKO.’= New Edition With 40 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =UNCLE BERNAC=: a Memory of the Empire. With 12 Full-page Illustrations. Third and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =RODNEY STONE.= New and Cheaper Illustrated Edition. With 8 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE WHITE COMPANY.= New and Cheaper Edition (the 28th Edition. Revised). With 8 Full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE GREEN FLAG=, and other Stories of War and Sport. With a Frontispiece. NEW EDITION. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD.= With 16 Illustrations by W. B. WOLLEN. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.= Illustrated by SIDNEY PAGET. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.= With Illustrations by SIDNEY PAGET. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.= With 25 Illustrations by SIDNEY PAGET. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD.= With 24 Illustrations by W. B. WOLLEN. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE SIGN OF FOUR.= Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._ =THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.= With Illustrations by SIDNEY PAGET. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._