As the freed man stretched himself to his full height, he looked gravely down into the bleared eyes of his captor, and held out his strong right hand.

Chivers took it.

Whether there was some occult power in Collinson's honest grasp, I know not; but there sprang up in Chivers's agile mind the idea that a good way to get rid of Mrs.Collinson was to put her in the way of her husband's finding her, and for an instant, in the contemplation of that idea, this supreme rascal absolutely felt an embarrassing glow of virtue..