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"That word again!" cried Maurice, in a puzzled voice. "Dido used it when we met Etwald; she repeated it to me before I left. Voodoo! Voodoo! What does it mean, Uncle Jen?","She won't have you.","Yes. I have already told you so. In my speech for the defense you will be fully satisfied that I have good cause to act as I am doing.","Did he ask to buy the devil-stick?" demanded Lady Meg, in surprise.,"On the night that the body was stolen," continued Jen, deliberately, "Jaggard was drugged.","What are the names, major?" asked Arkel, anxiously.,"Well, Arkel," said Jen, after the first greetings were over, "have you any clew?","I hope Elinor tries for it," she said excitedly. "She'll say she's too green, I suppose.",Anyway, I don't know when I ever was so glad to see anybody as I was when Mrs. Johnson came in the front door. A woman who has proved to her own satisfaction that marriage is a failure is at times a great tonic to other women. I needed a tonic badly this morning and I got it.,"But surely, Uncle Jen, you don't look upon her as the guilty person!",That she did not desire Maurice for a son-in-law was an insufficient motive for the commission of a triple crime. She had declined to sanction the engagement; she had forbidden Maurice the house; and, assisted upon all points by social rules, she had ample power to prevent the match, which, as she averred, was distasteful to her. Why, then, with this power, should she jeopardize liberty and life by thieving the devil-stick and killing the man? In his perplexity, Jen sought out David and asked his opinion. The young lawyer gave a very decided verdict in favor of Mrs. Dallas.,"Or from Etwald," rejoined Jen. "If I can only succeed in having him arrested he may confess all.".