"Was it–the man of whom he was jealous who was murdered?"
"No, the woman, Liane Devereux. She had been shot–in the face. Oh, it was horrible! It is horrible now to talk to you of it. Her features were so destroyed that she could be recognized only by her hair, which was golden-red, and her figure–her beautiful figure which all the world admired so much. Even her hands–she must have held them up before her face, the poor creature, instinctively trying to save herself, to preserve her beauty, for they, too, were shattered. Her jewels were all gone, and she had had many jewels. Soon the police discovered that they had been pawned. And Max was accused of pawning them, to get money to pay gambling debts."
"How could they accuse him of that?"
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