Here was luck. The
wolf had led him to the two men whom he most wanted to capture.
"Now, Joy, I want you to tell me the truth," said Ted, when he had
released the Japanese. "Did you murder Miss Mowbray, and why did you do
it?"
The Jap looked at him with growing intelligence in his eyes.
"Me no kill. Mistah Mowbray kill with cord. I see him, and he tly to
kill me."
Ted looked at Mowbray, who had straightened up and was listening.
Then he nodded his head, and signaled to Ted to give him a drink of
water. After he had drunk he seemed stronger.
"Come here," he said, in a hoarse whisper. Ted went to his side.
"I might as well confess," he said. "It will make the end easier. I will
be dead in a few minutes, for I am mortally wounded. I would have
released that poor devil of a Japanese, but I hadn't the strength to go
to him."
"Take it easy," said Ted.
"I murdered Helen Mowbray by strangling her with a cord," he said, after
a pause. "I did it because I had gambled away everything I had and
needed money--and she wouldn't give it to me.
"I lived for many years in India, and there I became a member of the
sect known as the Thugs, who use a cord to strangle their victims. She
cast me off, and when she refused to help me I became enraged and killed
her. I am sorry now, for she was a fine woman, but I needed money.
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