In prison I found the Grace of God and I vowed it should be my guide through life.

As soon as I was free from police supervision I changed my name--I believe it's a good old Devonshire name; my father came from there--the prison taint hung about it.

Then, when I found I could extend a miserable little business I had got together, I changed it again to suit my trade.

That's about all." There was a spell of dead silence.

The shrunken man, stricken with a sense of his sin of oath-breaking, had Spoken without change of attitude, his hand over his eyes.