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"A deed's to be done. There is sin in the doing. Oh, see how the mother her child is pursuing! She smites him unknowing. Oh, mother, blind mother, Thy son thou hast slain -- not the son of another! The deed thou hast done bodes a life-time of rueing; Thy son thou hast slaughtered, as Cain did his brother! "
It was on Friday morning that Mrs. Belk had her fatal interview with Maxwell -- fatal indeed to her son, to benefit whom that same interview had been sought for. Had she not been of such a secretive disposition she would have told Samson of the finding of the jewel and how she intended to obtain money thereon as a clue to the assassin of Sir Rupert, in which case he would doubtless have prevented her doing so.