`The Professor,' he murmured --
`it was she.' The maid is prepared to swear that those were
the exact words. He tried desperately to say something else,
and he held his right hand up in the air. Then he fell back dead.
"In the meantime the housekeeper had also arrived upon the scene,
but she was just too late to catch the young man's dying words.
Leaving Susan with the body, she hurried to the Professor's room.
He was sitting up in bed horribly agitated, for he had heard
enough to convince him that something terrible had occurred.
Mrs. Marker is prepared to swear that the Professor was still
in his night-clothes, and, indeed, it was impossible for him to
dress without the help of Mortimer, whose orders were to come
at twelve o'clock. The Professor declares that he heard the
distant cry, but that he knows nothing more. He can give no
explanation of the young man's last words, `The Professor --
it was she,' but imagines that they were the outcome of delirium.
He believes that Willoughby Smith had not an enemy in the world,
and can give no reason for the crime. His first action was to
send Mortimer the gardener for the local police.
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