Royce to. If that doesn't have any effect, we can try stronger
measures; but I believe, if we can get her away from Silva's influence
for a few days, she will be all right again."
"I hope so," I agreed, "but I'm not at all certain. She didn't behave
like a hypnotised person, Godfrey; she seemed to be acting of her own
free will. I couldn't see that Silva was trying to influence her in
any way. She said she was trying to carry out her father's wish. And
it certainly was his wish--the will proves that. If anybody is
hypnotising her, I should say it was he."
"Well, I can't arrest him," said Simmonds, with a grin.
"Her father's wishes may have had some weight with her at the outset,"
admitted Godfrey, "but they couldn't have driven her to the length to
which she has gone. And about the will. If Vaughan had not been
killed, if he had been found insane, the will would have been at once
invalidated. Don't you get the glimmer of a motive for his murder
there, Lester?"
"It can be invalidated now, if Miss Vaughan contests it," I pointed out.
"Yes; but unless she _does_ contest it, it will stand. But if Vaughan
had been declared insane, the will could never have been probated--no
contest would have been necessary.
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