discredited, as he believed.

"But no doubt you will desire the presence of the
Commissary-General?" This was from Colonel Fletcher his own
colonel and a man who esteemed him - and it was asked in accents
that were pleadingly insistent.

"What purpose could it serve, sir? Sir Terence's words are partly
confirmed by the evidence he has just elicited from Sergeant Flynn
and his butler Mullins. Since he spent the night writing a letter
to the Commissary, it is not to be doubted that the subject would
be such as he states, since from my own knowledge it was the most
urgent matter in our hands. And, naturally, he would not have
written without having the documents at his side. To summon the
Commissary-General would be unnecessarily to waste the time of the
court. It follows that I must have been mistaken, and this I admit."

"But how could you be mistaken?" broke from the president.

"I realise your "difficulty in crediting, it. But
there it is. Mistaken I was."

"Very well, sir." Sir Harry paused and then added "The court will
be glad to hear you in answer to the further evidence adduced to
refute your statement in your own defence."

"I have nothing further to say, sir," was Tremayne's answer.

"Nothing further?" The president seemed aghast. " Nothing, sir."