"He swears that Rad is guilty and that he will prove him so.

Rad may have done some bad things, but he's a good man--better than Jim Mattison ever thought of being." "Polly," I said with a touch of bitterness, "I wish you might have realized that truth earlier.

Rad is at heart as splendid a chap as ever lived, and his friends ought never to have allowed him to go astray." She looked away without answering, and then in a moment turned back to me and held out her hand.
"Good-by.

When you see him again please tell him what I said." As she turned away I looked after her, puzzled.

I was sure at last that she was in love with Radnor, and I was equally sure that he did not know it; for in spite of his sorrow at his father's death and of the suspicion that rested on him, I knew that he would not have been so completely crushed had he felt that she was with him.