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"Woman, this stranger Knows not thy shame; Yet there is danger Hears he thy name. / "Hide it, conceal it, Heed not the cost; Breathe it, reveal it, And thou art lost. "
The diamond scarf-pin had been found on the terrace of Thornstream by Mrs. Belk, so the man to whom it belonged must have been there on the night of the murder, and the owner thereof, according to Maxwell's firm conviction -- on the testimony of his own eyes -- was none other than the stranger who had been in the company of Mrs. Belswin at the Deswarth station. The first thing, therefore, to be done was to find out who this stranger was, and demand from him an explanation of his presence at Thornstream on that fatal night.