CHAPTER XXXV.
The Story is Told Elsie Banks had a small and select audience in Mrs.Bonner's room upstairs.

She had come from New York--or from California, strictly speaking--to furnish the narrative which was to set Rosalie Gray's mind at rest forever-more.

It was not a pleasant task; it was not an easy sacrifice for this spirited girl who had known luxury all her life.

Her spellbound hearers were Mrs.Bonner and Edith, Wicker Bonner, Anderson Crow, Rosalie, and John E.Barnes, who, far from being a captive of the law, was now Miss Gray's attorney, retained some hours before by his former captor.
"I discharge you, sir," Anderson had said, after hearing Miss Bank's statement in the roadway.

"You are no longer a prisoner.