“What cause, brother, has turned our deep and unbroken friendship to
such cruel strife as this?”
“Nay,” replied the brother-in-law, “what cause has moved you to slay
my sister, the most excellent woman that ever lived, and this in so
cowardly a fashion that under pretence of sleeping with her you have
hanged and strangled her with the bed-cord?”
On hearing these words the gentleman, more dead than alive, came to his
brother, and putting his arms around him, said--
“Is it possible that you have found your sister in the state you say?”
The brother-in-law assured him that it was indeed so.
“I pray you, brother,” the gentleman thereupon replied, “hearken to the
reason why I left the house.”
Forthwith he told him all about the wicked Grey Friar, whereat his
brother-in-law was greatly astonished, and still more grieved that he
should have unjustly attacked him.