Brellier, gave it back to her as having no
dealings with the case, she told me that she could not _absolutely_
recollect her uncle telling her that he _had_ killed the dog with it.
A small thing but rather important."
"And you say that this man Borkins arranged this revolver so as to point
to the prisoner's guilt, Mr. Cleek?" asked the judge.
"I say that the man Dacre Wynne was actually _killed_ with that identical
revolver which you hold in your hand, my lord. And the construction I put
upon it is this: Borkins hated his master, but the long story of that
does not concern us here, and upon the night of the quarrel he was
listening at the door, and, hearing how things were shaping themselves,
began, as he himself has told you in his evidence, to think that there
would soon be trouble between Sir Nigel and Mr. Wynne, if things went on
as they had been going. Therefore, when he was told that Mr. Wynne had
gone out across the Fens in a drunken rage, to investigate the meaning of
the Frozen Flames, the idea entered Borkins's mind.
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