POLLY MAKES A PROPOSAL I was dropped in Kennisburg to attend to the legal formalities respecting Radnor's release, while Terry appropriated the horses and drove to Mathers Hall.

His last word to Mattison and me was not to let a whisper reach Radnor's ear as to the outcome of the investigation.

He wanted a spectacular denouement.

The sheriff assented very soberly.

The truth had at last forced itself upon him that his chances with Polly were over.
Terry reappeared, two hours later, with a very excited young woman beside him.