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She came to the doorway with her hat and furs still on and repeated the question. Griffin gave her a synopsis of the row and the casualties following, which she received with a little protesting laugh.,"Is it?","What do you mean?" asked Maurice, turning his still frowning face toward this strange and enigmatic man.,Naturally the tragic end of the counsel for the defense created a great sensation. The trial was brought to an abrupt conclusion, the court was cleared, and the body of the dead man taken to the residence of Major Jen. In his rooms at Deanminster was found the confession signed by him, and which was substantially the same as that which he had made in court. At once--after the formalities of the law had been observed--Dr. Etwald was set at liberty on the charge of murder.,"Well, what kind of a feller is he, anyway? Come, answer up.",Lucy looked at her father with an expression of surprise that vanished from her fine dramatic eyes in an instant.,His wife did all she could to make him believe that she was delighted at his speedy return.,Back in the schoolyard a real old fashioned indignation meeting was being held by thirty lusty boys and girls. That any man, teacher or no teacher, should come into their beloved Settlement and announce that he had no use for it or its people and go on his way unscathed was beyond all understanding. Something would have to be done about it; but what? It was Billy who climbed up on the school fence, called order and offered the one sure solution to the problem.,"Very easily," said Jen, with a shrug. "Battersea is half negro. The black race adore the Voodoo stone, of which Dr. Etwald is the possessor. Etwald simply threatened Battersea with the vengeance of the Voodoo stone if he spoke. Therefore, he held his tongue, and was forced to confess all this only by your threatening to have him arrested as the murderer of Mr. Alymer.,Not deigning to notice this irrelevant interruption the teacher proceeded.,Something like a sigh escaped the man who listened to this edict. He took a lagging step or two forward.,"If you remember, sir. Dido called to see you that day.".