must have seen Lady Rachel
sometimes. Krill was drunk as usual. He had been boozing all the day
with a skipper of some craft at Southampton. He was good for nothing, so
Mrs. Krill did everything. She declares that she went to bed at eleven
leaving Lady Rachel sleeping."

"Did Lady Rachel recover her senses?"

"Yes--according to Mrs. Krill--but she refused to say who she was, and
merely stated that she would sleep at 'The Red Pig' that night and would
go on to London next morning. Mrs. Krill swore that Lady Rachel had no
idea of committing suicide. Well, about midnight, Mrs. Krill, who slept
in one room with her daughter, was awakened by loud shouts. She sprang
to her feet and hurried out, her daughter came also, as she had been
awakened and was terrified. Mrs. Krill found that her husband was raving
mad with drink and smashing the furniture in the room below. The
skipper--"

"What was the skipper's name?"

"Jessop--Jarvey Jessop. Well, he also, rather drunk, was retiring to bed
and stumbled by chance into Lady Rachel's room. He found her quite dead
and shouted for assistance. The poor lady had a silk handkerchief she
wore tied tightly round her throat and fastened to the bedpost. When
Jessop saw this, he ran out of the inn in dismay. Mrs. Krill descended
to give the alarm to her neighbors, but Krill struck her down, and
struck his daughter also, making her mouth bleed. An opal brooch that
Lady Rachel wore was missing, but Mrs. Krill only knew of that the next
day. She was insensible from the blow given by Krill, and the daughter
ran out to get assistance. When the neighbors entered, Krill was gone,
and notwithstanding all the search made for him he could not be found."

"And Jessop?"

"He turned up and explained that he had been frightened on finding the
woman dead. But the police found him on his craft at Southampton, and he
gave evidence. He said that Krill when drunk, and like a demon, as Mrs.
Krill told you, had left the room several times. The last time he came
back, he and the skipper had a final drink, and then Jessop retired to
find--the body. It was supposed by the police that Krill had killed Lady
Rachel for the sake of the brooch, which could not be discovered--"

"But the brooch--"

"Hold on. I know what you are about to say. We'll come to that shortly.
Let me finish this yarn first. It was also argued that, from Lady
Rachel's last words to her father, and from the position of the
body--tied by th