It was that I might save you from a crime.

You had been kind to me, sympathetic; I--I liked you very much, and I knew you did not understand; that you were being misled.

I could not determine then where the fraud was, but I knew there was fraud, and that you would eventually become its victim." "You cared that much for me ?" "Yes," she confessed frankly, "I did.

I would never have told you so under ordinary conditions.

But I can now, here, where we are--alone together in this boat." She paused, as though endeavoring to choose the proper words.