"I said that I had no son.

But we will not dwell on that.

If I could have had my desire, the truth, my identity, would have been buried with me." "No, no," panted the Marquess; "even if you had not come to-day, I should have told the truth, Wilfred.

Would to God I had told it before!" "Here, but look here!" Heyton broke out, with a kind of impatient insolence.

"This is all very well.