and level as his glance.

"Captain Tremayne - if the president will permit me to address you
in the interests of truth and justice - you bear, to my knowledge,
the reputation of an upright, honourable man. You are a man so
unaccustomed to falsehood that when you adventure upon it, as you
have obviously just done, your performance is a clumsy one, its
faults easily distinguished. That you are concealing something the
court must have perceived. If you are not concealing something
other than that Count Samoval fell by your hand, let me enjoin you
to speak out. If you are shielding any one - perhaps the real
perpetrator of this deed - let me assure you that your honour as
a soldier demands, in the interests of truth and justice, that you
should not continue silent."

Tremayne looked into the stern face of the great soldier, and his
glance fell away. He made a little gesture of helplessness, then
drew himself stiffly up.

"I have nothing more to say."

"Then, Captain Tremayne," said the president, "the court will pass
to the consideration of its finding. And if you cannot account for
the half-hour that you spent at Monsanto while Count Samoval was
meeting his death, I am afraid that, in view of all the other
evidences against you, your position is likely to be one of
extremest gravity.

"For the last time, sir, before I order your removal, let me add
my own to the exhortations already addressed to you, that you