Are you not the young man who lived in the flat opposite hers ?" Derrick's face grew red.

"I am, sir," he said.

"It was while I was living there that Miss Grant did me the service of which I speak.

I was in great trouble; in about as bad a trouble as a man could be; in fact, I had come to a point beyond which it seemed to me--I was a fool!--that it was impossible to carry on.

At that moment of folly and madness, Miss Grant came to my aid, and saved me--you will think me extravagant if I say--from death; but that's the real fact.