"Ethel Ferris has borne enough, and she has never been the same since the horrible night they brought Frank home, for she knew how he came by his death, though the coroner brought it in misadventure.

I also fancy my brother would be implacable in a case like this, though how far I am warranted in keeping the facts from him I do not know." Dane nodded gravely.

"We leave that to you.

You will, however, remember what happened once before.

We cannot go through what we did then again." Miss Barrington recalled the formal court-martial that had once been held in the hall of the Grange, when every man in the settlement had been summoned to attend, for there were offenses in regard to which her brother was inflexible.