19/29 "Stephens has made a full confession. You'll have it in all the papers to-morrow. And while I was at it I piled on some more I never did, which will get friends over the water out of trouble. Tom Flavell did me a good turn once, and he's been in hiding these two years for--well, it don't much matter what, but I've shoved that in with the rest, though it was never in my line--never. He'll be able to go home now." "Have not you confessed under your own name ?" "No," replied Raymond, with a curious remnant of that pride of race at which it is the undisputed privilege of low birth and a plebeian temperament to sneer. |