His voice
was as cold as steel as he said: "It would do little good, Mrs.
Popper, to destroy this one link in the chain I have forged. The
other links are too heavy for you. Don't forget the evidence of
the ink. It was your ink. Don't forget that Henry Vandam will not
any longer conceal that he has altered his will in favour of you.
To-night he goes from here to his lawyer's to draw up a new will
altogether. Don't forget that you have caused the Vandams
separately to have the prescription filled, and that you are now
caught in the act of a double murder. Don't forget that you had
access to the Vandam mansion, that you substituted the deadly for
the harmless capsules. Don't forget that your rappings announced
the death of one of your victims and urged the other, a cruelly
wronged and credulous old man, to leave millions to you who had
deceived and would have killed him.
"No, the record of the ghost on the seismograph was not Mr.
Farrington's, as I implied at the moment when you so kindly
furnished this additional proof of your guilt by trying to
destroy the evidence. The ghost was you, Mrs. Popper, and you are
at liberty to examine the markings as minutely as you please, but
you must not destroy them. You are an astute criminal, Mrs.
Popper, but to-night you are under arrest for the murder of Mary
Vandam and the attempted murder of Henry Vandam.
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