CHAPTER X.
It was evident to George Stratton that he would have no time before the trial came off in which to prove Stephen Roland the guilty person.
Besides this, he was in a strange state of mind which he himself could not understand.

The moment he sat down to think out a plan by which he could run down the man he was confident had committed the crime, a strange wavering of mind came over him.

Something seemed to say to him that he was on the wrong track.

This became so persistent that George was bewildered, and seriously questioned his own sanity.

Whenever he sat alone in his own room, the doubts arose and a feeling that he was on the wrong scent took possession of him.