He is as innocent as Sir Frank." "And no one dare say a word against him," cried Donna Inez with flashing eyes.
"He has a good defender, my dear," said the widow, patting the girl's hand.
"I love him," said Donna Inez, as if that explained everything, and perhaps it did, so far as she was concerned.
Mrs.Jasher smiled indulgently, then turned for further information to Lucy.
"Can it be possible," she said, "that Widow Anne is guilty ?" "Oh, I don't think so.

She would not murder her own son, especially when she was so very fond of him.

Archie told me, just before we came here, that he had called to see her.

She still insists that Sidney borrowed the clothes, saying that Archie wanted them." "What do you make of that, my dear ?" "Well," said Miss Kendal, pondering, "either Widow Anne herself was the woman who talked to Sidney through the Sailor's Rest window, and has invented this story to save herself, or Sidney did get the clothes and intended to use them as a disguise when he fled with the emeralds." "In that case," said Mrs.Jasher, "the woman who talked through the window still remains a problem.

Again, if Sidney Bolton intended to steal the emeralds, he could have done so in Malta, or on board the boat." "No," said Lucy decisively.