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 self with terror, as you say? You had no means of knowing what that cry meant.”

“I knew only too well. My dear husband’s life had been threatened—only recently, as a matter of fact—by Mr. Winthrop here.”

“I deny that,” said I.

“Did you hear Mr. Winthrop threaten your husband—my father?” asked Mark Drew sharply.

“No-o,” said the woman. “Not precisely. But Henry—Mr. Drew—had told me he was afraid of Mr. Winthrop. He was very much upset when he found himself in the same stateroom with him. He tried to be moved.”

“Then when you cried out ‘He’s done it, suggested Doctor Parker, “you were—almost unconsciously—thinking of Winthrop?”

“That must have been it.”

“Doctor—you’re invaluable,” said Mark Drew with a strange smile. Rh