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"The other two do not matter," he said, looking her full in the eyes again. "But the third is ---- yourself."

 Mercia flushed a sudden scarlet eyes which a moment before had been alight with pent-up anxiety and repressed emotion blazed in an instant into hot indignation.

 "Arrest me?" she cried. "What do you mean? How dare you suggest such a thing?"

 Delbury made a gesture of restraint.

 "For your own good, madam, I must ask you not to get excited," he said. " this is a very grave matter and one which is as distasteful to me as it must be to you. I ask you to believe that, in all fairness to me. I will not detain you any longer than I can possibly help. As soon as I have obtained from you such information as I require I will answer as many questions of yours as you wish. also your mother can be present when I tell you."

  Mercia subsided; she sat down and folded her hands in her lap, but she regarded the detective with an a