For a lawyer, I am strangely unwilling to tell a lie; but it must be done! He must be saved at any price!" He went to his desk and wrote the following note: "To the Editor of 'The Times': "Sir: I beg to call your attention to a paragraph that appears in 'The Times' of today stating that a man, tried under the name of John Smith for stealing a watch, is no less a person than Basil Carruthers, Esq., of Ulverston Priory.

As the solicitor of that family, and manager of the Ulverston property, I beg to contradict it.

Mr.Carruthers, himself, informed me of his intention to go abroad.

Without doubt his indignant denial will follow mine.

I am, sir, etc., "Herbert Forster." "That may help him," he said.