The ring had not been discovered on Carmel as I had secretly feared.
"I will take good care of your interests from now on," he remarked, in a tone much more natural than any he had before used.

"Be hopeful and show a brave front to the district attorney when he comes to interview you.

I hear that he is expected home to-morrow.

If you are innocent, you can face him and his whole office with calm assurance." Which showed how little he understood my real position.
There was comfort in this very thought, however, and I quietly remarked that I did not despair.
"And I _will_ not," he emphasised, rising with an assumption of ease which left him as he remained hesitating before me.
It was my moment of advantage, and I improved it by proffering a request which had been more or less in my mind during the whole of this prolonged colloquy.
First thanking him for his disinterestedness, I remarked that he had shown me so much consideration as a lawyer, that I now felt emboldened to ask something from him as my friend.
"You are free," said I; "I am not.

Miss Cumberland will be buried before I leave these four walls.