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Mrs. Tremby and Lawson left Winter square with a triumphant feeling that the long-standing mystery had been rightly solved, and that Randolph would now have to pay in full for his evil deeds. Jossy explained at length to the young man that she had always suspected Randolph, since her knowledge of the past assured her that he would shrink at nothing to gain his ends. But it was hard to understand why he had shot Lady Hamber, although on the evidence of the revolver--he must have done so. "I don't see what motive he had to get rid of her," argued Lawson; "she was his friend; she supported his suit to Audrey, and, so far as I can see, was more use to him alive than dead."
Jossey nodded gravely. "It is strange," she assented. "I am puzzled myself."