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The woman seemed to know what Hargest meant, for, with a low moan, she collapsed into a chair.
"Your brother," Hargest said. "When you heard he was in this neighbourhood, did it ever occur to you that he came here for a purpose? I happen to know that he was devoted to you and that when he discovered how you had been treated by your husband he became possessed of an obsession--I mean he made up his mind that if ever he met Bascoe, one of them would die. Is it this knowledge that is troubling you so terribly?"