'No possible doubt?' his brother repeated. 'I shall go
on with my reading, Henry--and see what justification
there may be for that confident conclusion of yours.'
He read on steadily, until he had reached the end of the Second Act.
Then he looked up.
'Do you really believe that the mutilated remains which you
discovered this morning are the remains of our brother?' he asked.
'And do you believe it on such evidence as this?'
Henry answered silently by a sign in the affirmative.
Lord Montbarry checked himself--evidently on the point of entering
an indignant protest.
'You acknowledge that you have not read the later scenes
of the piece,' he said. 'Don't be childish, Henry! If you
persist in pinning your faith on such stuff as this, the least
you can do is to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with it.
Will you read the Third Act? No? Then I shall read it to you.'
He turned to the Third Act, and ran over those fragmentary passages
which were clearly enough written and expressed to be intelligible
to the mind of a stranger.
'Here is a scene in the vaults of the palace,' he began.
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