She remembered the other things Griggs had told her: how old Bamberger must surely have discovered that his daughter had been murdered, and that he meant to keep it a secret till he caught the murderer.

Even now the detectives might be on the right scent, and if he whose child had been killed, and whose wife had been stolen from him by the man he had once trusted, learnt the whole truth at last, he would not be easily appeased.
'You have had some singular offers of marriage,' said Logotheti in a tone of reflection.

'You will probably marry a beggar some day--a nice beggar, who has ruined himself like a gentleman, but a beggar nevertheless!' 'I don't know,' Margaret said carelessly.

'Of one thing I am sure.

I shall not marry Mr.Van Torp.' Logotheti laughed softly.
'Remember the French proverb,' he said.