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"Then it was not Arthur who took them?''

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"I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not."

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"You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him know that the truth is known."

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"He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an interview with him. and finding that he would not tell me the story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his lips."

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"For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary mystery !"

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"I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary.


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