Rullock seemed to have thrust his chair back into the shadow.

Out of it came presently his voice, low and hoarse: "No." "They found her on Christmas Day--drowned in the Kelpie's Pool.
Self-murder--murder also of a child that would have been." Again silence.

The lawyer found that he must go through with it, having come so far.

"It seems that there is a cripple fellow of the neighborhood who had stumbled, unseen, upon your trysts.

He told--spoke it all out to the crowd gathered.