"Watt will do for the present. He can tell me the one or two things I
need to know now," rejoined North indifferently.

"All right, I'll send for him then."

The sheriff quitted the room, closing and locking the door after him.
North heard his footsteps die out in the long passage. At last he was
alone! He threw himself down on the cot for manhood seemed to forsake
him.

"My God,--Elizabeth--" he groaned and buried his face in his hands.

The law had lifted a sinister finger and leveled it at him.




CHAPTER THIRTEEN

LIGHT IN DARKNESS


The expression on General Herbert's face was one of mingled doubt and
impatience.

"You must be mistaken, Thompson!" he was saying to his foreman, who had,
with the coming of night, returned from an errand in town.

"General, there's no mistake; every one was talking about it! Looks like
the police had something to go on, too--"