Servants, adopted daughter, Moody, Hardyman, Sweetsir--all beyond suspicion.

Who is left?
The Reverend Samuel Bradstock." This ingenious exposition of "the exhaustive system of reasoning," failed to produce any effect on Lady Lydiard.

"You are wasting our time," she said sharply.

"You know as well as I do that you are talking nonsense." "I don't," said Felix.

"Taking the gentlemanly professions all round, I know of no men who are so eager to get money, and who have so few scruples about how they get it, as the parsons.