"Ah--in that case--but still--will you meet me? Say here--this
evening?"

"I will see if I can".

"At seven?"

"I will see".

So they parted, she to tread that intricacy of streets round the
Market, with stoppages for enquiries, till she found the office,
where she presently sat in an inner room, veil at nose-tip, and
before her at a grate stood Hogarth's solicitor.

What, till now, for shame, she had concealed, she revealed: showing
how Richard could not possibly have taken the revolver with him to
the elm, since she, two days previously, had secretly given it to--
someone.

Mr. Carr, the solicitor, frowned, elaborating his nails.

"This is very extraordinary", he said. "Whyever did you keep us in
the dark as to all this before? And to whom was it that you gave the
revolver? and why?"

"Am I bound to tell that?"

"No, but you may be sure that the truth will be got from you. Stay--
I must ask you to excuse me now. But tomorrow morning at this hour--
will you? As for your brother, have no fears at all: he is now