\"Was he conscious?\"
\"I cannot say for certain. He was incapable of speaking.\"
\"Then he said nothing to you before he died?\"
\"Not a word, Madame.\"
\"H'm!\" said Mme. Storey. I knew the same thought was in her mind as in my own; that it was very painful to see a naturally decent and upright man struggling to tell a convincing lie. I wondered what had taken place in that death chamber.
\"Was it not rather unwise to
\"Was he conscious?\"
\"I cannot say for certain. He was incapable of speaking.\"
\"Then he said nothing to you before he died?\"
\"Not a word, Madame.\"
\"H'm!\" said Mme. Storey. I knew the same thought was in her mind as in my own; that it was very painful to see a naturally decent and upright man struggling to tell a convincing lie. I wondered what had taken place in that death chamber.
\"Was it not rather unwise to
