Then like lightning he seemed to change, and said-- 'Your Honour, I submit that it can answer no good purpose to disclose my alleged name.

There are others--I do not speak for myself.' The judge stopped a bit; then hesitated.

Starlight bowed.

'I do not--a--know whether there is any necessity to make public a name which many years since was not better known than honoured.

I say the--a--prisoner known as Starlight has, from the evidence, taken the principal part in this nefarious transaction.