I'm not sure he hadn't a hand in our trouble also." "If he had any end to serve I could believe it of him." "But what end ?" "Young Torode wants Carette." He laughed as though he deemed my horizon bounded by Carette, as indeed it was.

"No need for him to make away with the whole of her family in order to get her," he said.

"It would not commend him to her." And presently, after musing over the matter, he said, "All the same, Carre, what I can't understand is why you're alive.

In Torode's place now I'd surely have sunk you with the rest.

Man! his life is in your hands." "I understand it no more than you do.