Then came Harry's voice again.
"I 'm afraid it ain't going to be good news, Boy.

But there ain't no wye to get around it.

It's got to come out sometime--things like that won't stay 'idden forever.

And your father 's gone now--gone where it can't 'urt 'im." "I know," answered Fairchild in a queer, husky voice.

"He must have known, Harry--he must have been willing that it come, now that he is gone.