We were no sooner seated than he unlocked a drawer and handed me a document to read.
It was a deed of all my father's real and personal property.
"They have both confessed," said he.
"Confessed what ?" I asked, wondering if the secret of my father's death had come out.
"The conspiracy against your life.

There were two accomplices--one Count de Montalle, formerly a servant of Cobb, and now a convict in America, and the other a man named Fenlon, who is under arrest.

These were the men who tried to take your life.

Fenlon came over on the steamer with you, I believe." "And my stepmother--where is she ?" "Gone to answer for her sins at a higher court," said he.

"Her last deposition is annexed to the deed.