It was I who put the word 'astonishing' into his telegram; and, in my letter to you, I led you to suppose I had heard the news from him.
"I don't know exactly what I expected to gain from all this.

But, in a condition of mad despair, I seemed playing my very last card; and I played it for all it was worth--which apparently was not much! "I did plenty of other devilish work that night--chiefly mental suggestion.

This is the only really confessable thing.
"The letter your husband never saw, is in the enclosed envelope.

He will like to have it now.
"Thus, as you see, the Word has not returned unto you void.

It brings you the only reparation I can make.
"AUBREY TREHERNE." Helen tore open the sealed envelope, and found her little pencil note, the tender outpouring to Ronnie, written three days after her baby's birth.
So Ronnie never saw it--he never knew! He came home without having the remotest idea that she had been through anything unusual in his absence.
He had heard no word or hint of the birth of his little son.