You'll find him a good master if you are as good a servant to him as you have been to me." Then suddenly he made the quick movement of one who bethinks himself of something.

He waved Bentley away.
"There is a case in the drawer yonder," he said, when the servant was beyond earshot.

"It contains papers that concern you--certificates of your birth and of your mothers death.

I brought them with me as proofs of your identity, against the time when the hour of vengeance upon Ostermore should strike.

They twill serve no purpose now.