He has broken no law." Again he looked down, searchingly, into her angry little face, as it confronted him so fiercely in the starlight.

And he knew she was sincere.
"Miss Standish," he said, slowly.

"You believe you are telling the truth.

Your half-brother understood you too well to let you know what he was really up to.

He and Hade concocted some story--I don't know what--to explain to you the odd things going on in and around your home.