E.M. Glavis, also a son-in-law of the dead man, testified and was corroborated by another, a minister, that just as he turned into his yard last night, he met Jean Baptiste coming out. He moreover claims, that a few days before the trial, he tried to dissuade Baptiste from going through with the case, and to settle it out of court. But that Baptiste refused to consider it; that he showed his bitterness toward the now dead man, by declaring that if he hadn't wished to observe and subserve to the law, he would have killed the preacher long ago. It is therefore the consensus of opinion that Baptiste, disappointed by losing the suit, entered the house and murdered his wife and father-in-law while they slept. The circumstantial evidence is strong, and it looks rather bad for the author. Only one phase of the case seems to puzzle the police, however, and that is that the preacher and his daughter were found dead in the same room, the room which the minister occupied. Both had been stabbed with a knife that had long been in that same room. The minister's body lay in bed as if he had been murdered while he was sleeping, while that of the daughter lay near the door. It is the opinion also of those who feel Baptiste guilty, that he entered the house and went to the preacher's room, and there killed him while he lay sleeping; and that the daughter, who was sleeping downstairs near her mother, was possibly aroused by the noise, went up to the room, and was murdered as the intruder was about to leave. Baptiste refused to make any comment further than that he was innocent. "Accused of murder!" Agnes echoed, staring before her in much excitement. "_Jean Baptiste accused of murder!_" She read the account again. She arose and stood on the floor. "He _is_ innocent, _he is innocent_!" she cried to herself. "_Jean Baptiste would not commit murder, no, no, no! No, not even if he was justified in doing so._" Suddenly she seized her clothes, and in the next instant was getting hurriedly into them. She completed her toilet quickly, opened the door and slipped down the stairs. The maid was at work in the hall, and she approached her, and said: "Will you kindly advise the lady of the house that I have gone downtown on some very urgent business. That I shall return later in the day?" She stepped outside, crossed to State Street, inquired of an officer the way to the county jail, and a few minutes later boarded a car for the north side. She had no plans as to what she would or could do, but she was going to him. All that he had been to her in the past had arisen the instant she saw that he was in trouble. Especially did she recall his having saved them from foreclosure and disgrace years before. She was determined. She was _going_ to him, he was innocent, she was positive, and she would do all in her power to save him.