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"I don't blaelse you want to I think I should do the same if I were in your place You think it is incredible, because of our previous association, that I should not ht you were innocent But I don't I believe you are guilty I cannot see where there is a loophole in the evidence against you, as given in your own confession Why,John Barkley--"

He paused and twisted one of his graythefor a moment "Even if I did that," he went on, "you would still have twenty years of prison ahead of you for the worst kind of perjury on the face of the earth, perjury couilty, Kent If not of one thing, then of the other I airl at alow"

He turned to the door; and Kent made no effort to stop him Words came to his lips and died there, and for a space after Kedsty had gone he stared out into the green forest world beyond his , seeing nothing Inspector Kedsty, quietly and cal in ruin about himan, he was still a criminal--a criminal of the worst sort, perhaps, next to the man who kills another If he proved that he had not killed John Barkley, he would convict hi made solemn oath to a lie on what he supposed was his death-bed And for that, a possible twenty years in the Edmonton penitentiary! At best he could not expect less than ten Ten years--twenty years--in prison! That, or hang

The sweat broke out on his face He did not curse Kedsty now His anger was gone Kedsty had seen all the tiht of No ht feel in that deeply buried heart of his, he could not do otherwise than he was doing He, Jas on the earth, was kin-as-kisew--the blackest liar of all, a

And for that lie there was a great punishle-track affair, narrow-visioned, caring nothing for as to the right or the left It would tolerate no excuse which he ht find for himself He had lied to save a human life, but that life the Law itself had wanted So he had both robbed and outraged the Law, even though a reatest penalty of all