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"We have tried to befriend that girl in every way She is the daughter

and only child of de Barral"

Evidently he expected to produce a sensation; he kept his eyes fixed upon

n of it But I aze For a ti

reprehensibly dense I groped in the darkness of ht burst onopen on a street in the City De Barral!

But could it be the saested half incredulous

"Yes," said Fyne; and in this instance his native soleely appropriate "The convict"

Marlow looked at nificantly, and reht of de Barral as having any children, or any

other home than the offices of the "Orb"; or any other existence,

associations or interests than financial I see you remember the crash

"

"I ay in the Indian Seas at the time," I said "But of course--"

"Of course," Marlow struck in "All the worldYouthe name But you know that my memory is merely

athe

when called, either The