He never let on he told it to any one else.

And when I found that the man who killed him, Lance Harriott, had been hidin' here, had been sendin' spies all around to find out all about your son, had been foolin' you, and tryin' to ruin your gal as he had killed your boy, I knew that _he_ knew it too." "LIAR!" The door fell in with a crash.

There was the sudden apparition of the demoniac face, still half hidden by the long trailing black locks of hair that curled like Medusa's around it.

A cry of terror filled the room.

Three of the men dashed from the door and fled precipitately.