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So it would have been worse than useless to have spoken of her dream , or supposed dream . The coroner 's inquest sat several days without arriving at any definite conclusion . The most plausible theory of the murder seemed to be that a robbery had been planned between the valet and certain unknown confederates , who had all been tempted by the great treasures known to be in the castle that night in the form of costly bridal presents ; that no murder was at first intended ; that the confederates had been secretly admitted to the castle through the connivance of the valet ; that the strong guard placed over the treasures in the lighted drawing-room had saved them from robbery ; that the robbers , disappointed of their first expectations , next went , with the farther connivance of the valet , to the bedchamber of Sir Lemuel Levison , for the purpose of emptying his strong box ; that being detected in their criminal designs by the wakeful banker , they had silenced him by one fatal blow on the head ; that they had then accomplished the robbery of the strong box , and of the person of the deceased banker ; and had been secretly let out of the castle by the valet . Finally , it was thought that the man and the woman discovered under the balcony by Cuddie McGill on the night of the murder , were confederates in the crime , and the woman was the midnight passenger to whom Donald McNeil sold the second-class railway ticket to London , and that the heavy black bag she carried contained the booty taken from the castle . On the evening of the third day of the unsatisfactory inquest a verdict was returned to this effect . That the deceased Sir Lemuel Levison , Knight , had come to his death by a blow from a heavy bronze statuette held in the hands of some person unknown to the jury . And that Peters , the valet of the deceased banker , was accessory to the murder .