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"I understand," said Maurice, with a shrug. "It seems hopeless to contest this decision of a diseased and feeble mind. I can understand Dido stopping my marriage, as she wants to retain her sinful influence over Isabella; I can understand Mrs. Dallas, weak and silly, being dominated by this negro Jezebel; but I can't understand why David is chosen as the future son-in-law. If he marries Isabella, he will no more put up with Dido than I should have done.","Where did you find it?" he asked, pointing a trembling finger at the terrible piece of evidence.,"And Dido?","Can you prove him guilty?",Naskowski, on his way to the modeling room, paused to answer Patricia's question.,Jen drew back and stared at the young man in angry surprise.,After which Etwald bowed his visitor politely to the door of the gloomy old house which he occupied in Deanminster, and Jen returned home, quite baffled as to what could have become of the devil-stick. All his inquiries proved futile, and he was unable even to conjecture how it had disappeared; yet knowing its fatal qualities, he was in constant dread lest it should reappear in connection with a tragedy. Maurice still held to his idea that Dido had taken the wand, but Jen's inquiries proved that the negress had not been out of the house the night in question.,"Do you think he is guilty?","She loves me best.","You must have had a thought wave, Miss Patricia," said Tom Hughes. "The unexpected friend is here all right.","The law, Major Jen?" said Mrs. Dallas, alarmed.,"I shall find them.".