"What is one day more than another, when all wrongs are put right and crimes punished in the end?
Justice is not theatrical, but the obstinate offender cannot escape." He paused and then resumed: "Well, we shall never know all that happened, and as you have said, the matter is no longer in our hands.

Perhaps for the girl's sake--" "Yes," said Thirlwell, "she has borne enough.

You can imagine the shock she'd get if we found out, and had to tell her.

The thing's done with.
It's some relief to feel that my responsibility has gone." Father Lucien made a sign of agreement.

"I will come to see her to-morrow," he said, but Thirlwell knew that Agatha would never learn from him that Strange's canoe had not been accidentally capsized.
Early next morning Thirlwell went to the tail-pool, but nothing except some driftwood washed about in the eddy.