Chapter 46

“Establish what? My innocence?” said Cicely, and now she looked bewildered, rather than afraid. “Does anybody think that _I_ killed Miss Van Norman?” “Without going so far as to say any one thinks so, I will tell you that they think there are indications that point to such a thing.” “How absurd!” said Cicely, and the honesty of her tone seemed to verify Fessenden’s conviction that whatever guilty knowledge this girl might possess, she herself was innocent of crime. “If it is an absurd idea, then why not return to M…