And were he to do so, how could he make himself secure that the man and the woman would go back to Australia and trouble him no more?
All experience forbade him to hope for such a result.

And then the payment of the money would be one of many damning pieces of evidence against him.

They had now got back for the second time to the spot at which the way up to the house at Folking turned off from the dike.

Here he paused and spoke what were intended to be his last words.

'I have nothing more to say, Crinkett.