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Belief, though it be as ample as the ocean, does not always si It has, however, its point of maximum density, but this, not infrequently, is also ifs point ofrapidly Maitland caht, and he told Gwen that he did not feel altogether certain that, in arresting M Latour, the law had secured her father's real assassin It would be necessary to account for, he told her, soular errors in his early calculations if M Latour was the man

"When first I took up my abode under the same roof with him," he said, "I had no doubt that we had at last run down our h another detective has cos, and you etting these doubts answered one way or the other At present youevery nerve in her father's behalf"

Why all this should so please Gwen I was at a loss to coreatly She had been the ht to justice, and nohen through the efforts of M Godin, a man stood all but convicted of the crime, she was pleased to hear Maitland, whose efforts to track Latour she had applauded in no equivocal way, say that he should spare no pains to give the suspect every possible chance to prove his innocence There was certainly a reason, whatever it ht have been, for Gwen's attitude in thiswo of especialof the trial Maitland, for the ave us little inforht there was a chance of clearing M Latour

With this end in view he had become an associate attorney with Jenkins in order the better to conduct M Latour's case along the lines which see I asked him on one occasion what led him to entertain a hope that Latour could be cleared and he replied: "A good s" "Well, then," I rejoined, "what are soly: "You see I hate to acknowledge the falsity of my theories I said shortly after the ht the assassin was short and probably did not weigh over one hundred and thirty-five pounds; that hehis footprints, and that he had a peculiarity in his gait I felt tolerably sure then of all this, but now it turns out that M Latour is six feet tall in his stockings, and thin; and that, emaciated as he is, he tips the scales at one hundred and fifty pounds by reason of his large fraait as regular as--ive up all le?"