Lite--" Bite looked at her, looked away and bit his lips.

It was long since he had seen tears in Jean's steady, brown eyes, and the sight of them hurt him intolerably.

There was nothing that he could say to strengthen her faith, absolutely nothing.

He did not see how money could free her father before his sentence expired.

Her faith in her dad seemed to Lite a wonderful thing, but he himself could not altogether share it, although he had lately come to feel a very definite doubt about Aleck's guilt.