"
For the first time, Mary was caught off her guard.
"But he told me----" she began, then became aware of her
indiscretion, and checked herself.
Burke seized on her lapse with avidity.
"What did he tell you?" he questioned, eagerly.
Now, Mary had regained her self-command, and she spoke calmly.
"He told me," she said, without a particle of hesitation, "that
he had never seen one. Surely, if he had had anything of the
sort, he would have shown it to me then."
"Probably he did, too!" Burke rejoined, without the least
suspicion that his surly utterance touched the truth exactly.
"Now, see here," he went on, trying to make his voice affable,
though with small success, for he was excessively irritated by
these repeated failures; "I can make it a lot easier for you if
you'll talk. Come on, now! Who killed Griggs?"
Mary cast off pretense finally, and spoke malignantly.
"That's for you to find out," she said, sneering.
Burke pressed the button on the desk, and, when the doorman
appeared, ordered that the prisoner be returned to her cell.
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