And so--" "There _was_ a woman in this affair, then ?" Catherine queried with sudden pain.

"The newspapers haven't made the story _all_ up out of whole cloth ?" "No.

There _was_ a woman.

A Delilah, who delivered me into the hands of the Philistines, when I tried to help her in what she lied in telling me was her need.

Will you hear the story ?" Still very pale, she formed a half-inarticulate "Yes!" with her full lips.