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 others. The men whom I saw are one and all as incapable of committing this murder as I am. I must decline to subject any of them to the annoyance I am now subjected to."

"I don't know whether you are incapable of committing murder or not. I shouldn't want to affirm it of any one—not even myself. I am convinced that you saw and talked with Wing's murderer that night. I must know the name of every man you saw while in Millbank, and if I can't find it out in one way, I will in another."

"It pleases you to threaten," Matthewson said, not wholly unconscious of an uneasy feeling.

"Not to threaten, but simply to show you that I am in earnest," Trafford assured him. "Still, I may appeal to you on another ground. I have named two men whom you saw. If I am to suppose they were the only ones, then I must regard one or the other as the real murderer, and this because you persist in concealing from me the name of the man who may be guilty. Have you a right to do this?"

"As much right," retorted Matthewson hotly,