Perhaps the relief I felt found expression in my face, for the woman exclaimed: "I believe you are actually glad; that it pleases you to know this." "It certainly does," I replied swiftly, "for now I can work openly, knowing exactly what I ought to do.

I have felt like a rat skulking in a hole.

I believed what those men told me; they convinced me with proofs I could not ignore, but they must have lied.

In some details, at least, they must have deceived.

Now would it be possible for Philip Henley to be in a penitentiary convicted of crime ?" "It would not be," she returned firmly.