A CONFESSION Now, indeed, Lucian had his hands full.

Rhoda, the red-headed servant of Mrs.Bensusan, had run away on the plea that she was afraid of something--what she did not explain in the note she left behind her, and it was necessary that she should be discovered, and forced into confessing what she knew of the conspiracy and murder.

Mrs.Clear, not having been paid her hush money, had betrayed the confidence and misdeeds of Ferruci, thereby revealing an extent of villainy for which neither Diana nor Lucian was prepared.

Now the Count had to be seen and brought to book for his doings, Lydia informed that her husband was in the asylum, and Vrain himself had to be released in due form from his legal imprisonment.

How Lucian, even with the assistance of Diana, could deal with all these matters, he did not know.
"Why not see Mr.Link ?" suggested Diana, when Mrs.Clear had departed, after making a clean breast of the nefarious transactions in which she had been involved.