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"II said almost----" Anstice positively stah to be going on with" Carstairs spoke resolutely "Look here, I'll tell you so I meant to keep to myself For the last two months--ever since I receivedht that perhaps after all I was ly mistaken, in the conclusion I came to at the time of the trial At first I was convinced, as you know, that the verdict was the only possible one; and, although it nearly killedbut leave her and return to India alone But in the last feeeks I have asked myself whether after all I have notmy ere innocent, that her silence were the only possible course open to a proud and honourable wo had been done, and the real writer of those letters allowed to escape scot-free Oh, there were endless suppositions once I began to dwell on the possibility of sand when at last I was able to sail for England I cao into the matter once more, to rake up, if necessary, the whole sad affair fro, and see whether there were not some other solution to the mystery than the one I was forced to accept at the tierly, and the otherether to-day I'ious fellow, and I always feel that if there be a God He went back on o in a way I had not deserved, but I do think that there is soood coht, well"--he laughed with a sudden gaiety that surprised hihty and admit there is justice in the world after all!"

"Dr Anstice," said Carstairs, "I don't understand you Would youa littlebetween you andmore than the prelude--as I hope it may be--to a very pleasant friendship? I honour your belief in my wife, but when you speak of proof----"