Chapter 25

“I not only ask you, but I direct you to do it, and do it at once.” An attendant handed pencil and paper to Cicely, and, after a glance at Carleton, who did not meet it, she began to write. Though evidently agitated, she wrote clearly and evenly, and the paper she handed to Coroner Benson a moment later was practically an exact duplicate of the one found on the library table. “It does not require a handwriting expert,” said the coroner, “to declare that these two papers were written by the same hand. The penmanship…