_The Confession of_ Philippa South, _calling herself_ Lady Errand.

'I tell you again, as I told you before, I know nothing about what I did
that night. Go back to your employers.'

Nothing more of a nature suited to our columns could be extracted from
this lady.

_The Confession of_ Mrs. Thompson.

'I lost my cellar key the night Philippa left my roof. I now recognise
it as the key in the possession of William Evans. How he got it I have
no idea whatever.'

_The Confession of_ Basil South, M.D.

'I begin to understand it all at last. The key which I took from
Philippa on the night of the storm and supposed murder had not been
taken by her from Sir Runan.

'She had brought it with her from the house of Mrs. Thompson, with whom
she had been residing.

'When I threw away a key, which I believed to be the one I had taken
from Philippa, I made a mistake.

'I threw away a key of my own. When I thought I was giving William Evans
the key of my cellar (with fatal intentions and designs, hoping that he
would never survive the contents of that cellar), I really gave him the
key I had taken from Philippa.

'Consequently the key would not fit the cellar lock.

'Consequently William Evans never tasted the fatal fluid, and so escaped
his doom.

'I have nothing to add to this confession, except that I am deeply
penitent, and will never again offer a thoughtless public a Christmas
Annual so absurd, morbid, and incoherent.'

This last statement made it unnecessary to interview William Evans.

All the other persons in this dismal affair are detained during her
Majesty's displeasure.

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