There hasn't been
any other club found, but Phineas Finn took his home with him."
"A murderer would not have done that."
"Barrington says that the head policeman says that it is just what a
very clever murderer would do."
"Do you believe it, Duchess?"
"Certainly not;--not though Lord Fawn swore that he had seen it. I
never will believe what I don't like to believe, and nothing shall
ever make me."
"He couldn't have done it."
"Well;--for the matter of that, I suppose he could."
"No, Duchess, he could not have done it."
"He is strong enough,--and brave enough."
"But not enough of a coward. There is nothing cowardly about him.
If Phineas Finn could have struck an enemy with a club, in a dark
passage, behind his back, I will never care to speak to any man
again. Nothing shall make me believe it. If I did, I could never
again believe in any one. If they told you that your husband had
murdered a man, what would you say?"
"But he isn't your husband, Madame Max."
"No;--certainly not. I cannot fly at them, when they say so, as you
would do.
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