He straightened out the telegram and read it once more under the lamplight, as though to be sure there was no possible mistake.

Then he folded it up and placed it in his waistcoat pocket.
"The notion of your arrest, sir," he said to Lessingham harshly, "is apparently distasteful to some one at headquarters who has not digested my information.

I am withdrawing my men for the present." "You're not going to arrest him ?" Philippa cried.
"I am not," Captain Griffiths answered.

"But," he added, turning to Lessingham, "this is only a respite.

I have more evidence behind all that I have offered.