swimming eyes, murmuring inarticulate words, and he understood that, she
meant to thank him for the efforts he had made to spare her in his
evidence on the previous day. In truth she bad been touched by the change
in him, and she, too, was fighting with her love a harder battle than
his.

'I'm sorry for you, Chris,' he said, 'but time will heal all this, never
fear.'

She gazed at him and slowly shook her head.

'Never, Harry,' she said.

'It will, it will!' he persisted. 'Chris, you're coming back after it's
all over?'

'Yes,' she said, 'I must.'

'An' you've not forgotten?'

'No, Harry, I have not forgotten anything.' There was a strain of
firmness in her voice that jarred him, and he looked at her sharply; but
her face gave him no comfort. A moment later she was joined by Mrs.
Summers and another friend, and he left her, his heart unsatisfied, his
mind shaken with doubts and perplexities.

Joe Rogers was found guilty and sentenced to twelve years' hard labour.
Close upon eight hundred ounces of gold were handed over to the Silver
Stream Company, and the Company, 'in recognition of the valuable services
of Master Richard Haddon,' presented him with a gold watch and