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"I can answer that," broke in Arkel, amazed at the self-possession of the man. "I have here a warrant to arrest you for stealing the body of Maurice Alymer.","Miss Dallas, I know no more than you do; but he evidently desires to make a clean breast of this whole miserable business.","Not at all," rejoined Jen, coldly. "I can understand her reason for telling the lie. She wanted to shield--","How do you know that?" asked the inspector sharply.,"I can't give you my reasons. They would take too long to explain. But I believe that out of jealousy he killed Maurice.",A space was hurriedly cleared at the other end of the table, a chair placed and Patricia saw Elinor, blushing and protesting, thrust into it by a dozen laughing students.,CHAPTER X THE PRIZE DESIGNS,Upon her Dido exercised a powerful, and it must be confessed, malignant influence. She had fed the quick brain of the girl with weird tales of African witchcraft and fanciful notions of terrestrial and sidereal influences. Isabella's nature was warped by this domestic necromancy, and had she continued to dwell in the West Indies, she might almost have become a witch herself. Certainly Dido did her best to make her one, and taught her nursling spells and incantations, to which the girl would listen fearfully, half-believing, half-doubting. But her residence in England, her contact with practical English folk, with the sunny side of life, saved her from falling into the terrible abyss of African superstition; and how terrible it is only the initiated can declare. It only needed that she should be removed from the bad influence of the barbaric Sybil to render her nature healthy and fill her life with pleasure.,"You make one slight mistake, sir," said Jen, coldly. "I accuse you of two crimes, not of three.",Patricia made a gesture of amused impatience. "You monkey, you aren't thinking of Miss Jinny's hand at all. Where did you get that stuffy word?","I am neither for nor against," replied Jen, enigmatically. "As I said before, let the girl marry who she loves best.","Who lighted the lamp?" demanded Jen, sharply..