Duke.
When she had been cross-questioned by Bailie Thomson the inquiry
was closed by Mr. Duke, and the case remitted to a higher court.
Tom Kinlay was thereupon taken by Macfarlane to his prison cell to
await the delivery of the formal charge of murder.
I was taking up my gun and preparing to leave when Andrew Drever
requested me to remain in order to be present at the consideration
of a further question that had arisen out of his investigations of
the case. Mr. Duke remained in his chair, talking with Thora, while
Bailie Thomson and Mr. Fox went out. Presently, however, I was
somewhat surprised to see Captain Flett enter, with Peter Brown;
and I could only conjecture that there was now to be some
explanation as to the meaning of the two boxes being on the
table--the box out of the cave and the little chest from the
Pilgrim. But what was said and done at this supplementary inquiry
may well be reserved for another chapter.
Chapter XL. Ephraim Quendale.
"Tom Kinlay is no brother of yours, Thora; nor Carver your father!"
These words were ringing in my ears. What did they mean?
I was questioning in my own mind what Colin could have meant when
Mr. Drever asked us all to sit at the table. He had some statement
to make.
Turning to Mr. Duke he said:
"In the remarkable evidence just given by Thora--I will not now
call her Thora Kinlay--you who heard it were no doubt astonished at
the revelation made to her by Colin Lothian in his dying moments.
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