Page 206 (1/1)

"Gad, yes!" exclaiht have had an inquest on a constable as well as a lawyer Good night, gentlemen, if you are off"

We went out and left hi to his aateway Thorndyke gave the inspector'sporter, and then we issued forth into Chancery Lane

We were all silent and very grave, and I thought that Thorndyke seemed somewhat moved Perhaps Mr Jellicoe's last intent look--which I suspect he knew to be the look of a dying ered in his memory as it did in mine Half-way down Chancery Lane he spoke for the first time; and then it was only to ejaculate, "Poor devil!"

Jervis took him up "He was a consummate villain, Thorndyke"

"Hardly that," was the reply "I should rather say that he was non-moral He acted without malice and without scruple or remorse His conduct exhibited a passionless expediency which was rather dreadful because utterly unhueous, self-contained man, and I had been better pleased if it could have been ordained that some other hand than mine should let the axe fall"

Thorndyke's coe and inconsistent, but yet his feeling was alsothat this inscrutable ave hiot the callous relentlessness hich he had pursued his evil purpose For he it ho had brought Ruth into my life; who had opened for me the Paradise of Love into which I had just entered And so hts turned away from the still shape that lay on the floor of the stately old room in Lincoln's Inn, away to the sunny vista of the future, where I should walk hand in hand with Ruth until ri me put out into the darkness of the silent sea