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"So I thought at first" Her blue eyes narrowed "But in soe home to me I was the only one, they said, who knew the story I had wored, and had then, owing to the subsequent coolness between us, traded upon e in order to drive her out of the place"

"But others must have known the story?"

"Yes But I was the only one in Littlefield who knew it"

"So they said But in reality----"

"In reality, of course, it was known to soround When once I had been suggested as the culprit a quantity of evidence was forthco to clinch the matter, so to speak I was never particularly popular here, and people were quite ready to believe me capable of the deed" She ss looked black for me--the letters ritten on the kind of paper I used, and though of course the handwriting was disguised, there was, in one or two letters, an undeniable si"

"But your word--wasn't that sufficient?"

The apathy of her manner relaxed for one aveof the letters, of course I said so; but I was not believed I confess everything was against me Most of the letters were posted in the pillar box not a hundred yards frohton for a couple of days, one of those vile things bore the Brighton postlanced at the clock "I a so--this delightful story can be continued in our next"

"Please go on" Anstice would not willingly have foregone the rest of the recital

"Well, after various suspicious happenings, which I won't inflict upon you now, and after being interviewed by the Bishop, by detectives, by a hundred and one individuals who revelled in the case, I was accused, tried, and found guilty"

"Found guilty? I up, quite unable to sit still another moment Souilty" Her voice held little expression "And sentenced to twelve e who sentenced e--that he deemed it expedient to 'ally--as an educated young woman, of apparent refineenerally with illiterate and ignorant persons of degenerate tendencies"