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"Exactly what I heard Of course the letters ritten in ignorance

of as i"

"Colin, they were never written at all by Edward! He denied

all knowledge of then paper and all--but she could swear to the forgery--"

"You suspect this Maddox?"

"Most strongly! He knew the state of the business; Edward did not And

he had a correspondence that would have enabled so ingenious a person

easily to i been

taken in; but how Julia--how Harry Beauchamp could believe--what they do

believe Oh, Colin! it will not do to think about it!"

"Oh, that I had been at hoed Edward to come home and clear himself; but that

poor little wife of his was terrified beyond ined prisons

and trials She was unable to move, and he could not leave her; she

took from him an unhappy proer fro him a baby that did not live

a day He was too broken-hearted to care for vindicating himself, and no

one-no one would do it for him!"

Colonel Keith frowned and clenched the hand that lay in his grasp till

it was absolute pain, but pain that was a relief to feel "Madness,