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ACT V.

SCENE I.—Bruton's Lodgings. Bruton and his friend, a Justice of the Peace, are discovered in earnest conversation.

JUSTICE.

And you decidedly say your suspicions rest not on Arden.

BRUTON.

Decidedly. There is not one trait in the character of the man that should raise in my mind the slightest suspicion; nor even any circumstance regarding him of any kind, his interest in the death of the deceased only excepted.

JUSTICE.

Did you not hint at another person whom you do suspect?

BRUTON.

I know a man whose fortune Robinair has ruined, whose sister he has seduced and abandoned, and whom I believe to be capable of executing the fellest revenge; yet, as I have no actual evidence to support my suspicions, you must not receive them from me as any kind of information to be acted upon. It were hard,