Interviewed by a reporter, Judge Rossmore indignantly denied being interested in any way in the company.

Thereupon the same paper returned to the attack, stating that the judge must surely be mistaken as the records showed a sale of stock to him at the time the company was known as the Alaskan Mining Company.

When he read this the judge was overwhelmed.

It was true then! They had not slandered him.

It was he who had lied, but how innocently--how innocently! His daughter Shirley, who was his greatest friend and comfort, was then in Europe.