Your love, of course, is for your father; and if your father had had a father of larger spirit about money, he might have been talking to me pleasantly now, instead of--instead of all these sad things." "Please not to slip away from me," I said, bluntly, having so often met with that.

"You believe, as every good person does, that my father was wholly innocent.

But do tell me who could have done it instead.

Somebody must have done it; that seems clear." "Yes," replied Mr.Shovelin, with a look of calm consideration; "somebody did it, undoubtedly; and that makes the difficulty of the whole affair.

'Cui bono,' as the lawyers say.