And yet, when you come to think of it all, the situation doesn't seem to be so terribly alarming to me after all.

Why, for instance, do you fear those letters--this scoundrel Lang's confession?
Kill him.

Let the letter come to Adare.

Cannot Josephine swear that she is innocent?
Can she not have a story of her own showing how foully Lang tried to blackmail her into a crime?
Would not Adare believe her word before that of a freebooter?
And am I not here to swear--that the child--was mine ?" There was almost a pitying look in the half-breed's eyes.
"M'sieur, what if in that letter were named people and places: the hospital itself, the doctors, the record of birth?
What if it contained all those many things by which the master of Adare might trail back easily to the truth?
With those things in the letter would he not investigate?
And then--" He made a despairing gesture.
"I see," said Philip.

Then he added, quickly "But could we not keep the papers from Adare, Jean?
Could we not watch for the messenger ?" "They are not fools, M'sieur.