16/22 "Because I didn't want to queer your game. You saved Nyland--an innocent man. Knowing your reputation for fairness, I was convinced that you didn't come here to deceive anybody." "But I did deceive somebody," said Sanderson. "Not you, accordin' to what you've been tellin' me, but Mary Bransford. She thinks I am her brother, an' I've let her go on thinkin' it." "Why ?" asked the little man. |