Probably I shall be more sure of my facts before morning.

I will explain to you later, if it should seem likely to be helpful to you in your treatment of the case.

Just now, as I see it, the matter lies exclusively between me"-- he smiled looking at his companion full and steadily--"between me"-- he repeated, "and my only child." All which upon the face of it might, surely, be voted encouraging enough.

Yet: "Should there be any that doubt the veritable existence of hell fire," the doctor told himself, as he subsequently and thankfully pulled on his night-shirt, "to recover them, and in double quick time, of their heresy let 'em but look in my friend Verity's eyes."-- And he rounded off the sentence with an oath..