"You trust me now with the handling of your fortune! Trust me yet a little longer with that secret.

I will telegraph you of the success or failure of our expedition.
"And then all will be made plain to you when Atwater returns.

There must be no failure of justice.

We will repay the villains to the uttermost farthing." And, in his turn, Witherspoon was sorely baffled, for the sudden appointment of Mr.Arthur Ferris of New York as Consul of the United States at Amoy, China, had been duly gazetted.

Only to Stillwell did the eager Witherspoon confide his fears that one of the unpunished criminals was escaping in honorable guise.
"You are in error, my boy," confidently answered the legal Solon.
"We have had Ferris shadowed on behalf of the executors ever since the death of Hugh Worthington.