It is scarcely likely he would announce his bitter shame to the world." "And his daughter was cognizant of these facts ?" "Only from the night of her father's death.

On that night he revealed to her the truth, under a solemn oath of secrecy.

Previous to that she had believed her mother dead.

That death-bed oath was the cause of all the trouble between Sir Everard and his wife.

Lady Kingsland would have died rather than break it." She glanced again--swift, keen, sidelong, a glance of diabolical triumph--at the prisoner.