"I had some little hope when I came in--I have none now." "You do not mean to say, though, that I am not to be any the better off for your visit ?" cried the man.

"I do not know your name, but I can see what you are.

Surely you will try to do something for me ?" "What can I do ?" asked Lord Arleigh.

"If you had been innocent--even if there had been what they call extenuating circumstances--I would have spent a fortune in the endeavor to set you free; but your confession renders me powerless." "The only extenuating circumstance in the whole affair," declared the man, after a pause, "was that I wanted money, and took what I thought would bring it.

So you would give a small fortune to clear me, eh ?" he interrogated.
"Yes," was the brief reply.
The man looked keenly at him.
"Then you must indeed have a strong motive.