I told him in a few words of his sister's scheme--Sebastian's defence--the plausibility of the explanation--the whole long story.

He gazed at me moodily.

Yet it was not Hugo! "No, no," he said, shortly; and as he spoke it was HE.

"I have done it; I have killed her; I will not owe my life to a falsehood." "Not for the children's sake ?" He dashed his hand down impatiently.

"I have a better way for the children.