CHAPTER VIII.
ROBIN'S VOW.
The revelation at the inquest had affected Mr.Verner in no measured degree, greatly increasing, for the time, his bodily ailments.

He gave orders to be denied to all callers; he could not bear the comments that would be made.

An angry, feverish desire to find out who had played the traitor grew strong within him.

Innocent, pretty, child-like Rachel! who was it that had set himself, in his wickedness, deliberately to destroy her?
Mr.Verner now deemed it more than likely that she had been the author of her own death.

It was of course impossible to tell: but he dwelt on that part of the tragedy less than on the other.