The law might have even more to say.

It would say that by keeping his mouth closed as to his adventure on that night he had ranged himself on the side of the criminals,--he was guilty not only of technical theft, but of a criminal knowledge of this terrible crime.

Events had followed upon one another so rapidly during these last few days that he had little enough time for reflection, little time to realize exactly how he stood.

The long-expected boom in "Unions," the coming of Zoe, the strange advances made to him by Mademoiselle Idiale, her incomprehensible connection with this tragedy across which he had stumbled, and her apparent knowledge of his share in it,--these things were sufficient, indeed, to give him food for thought.

Laverick was not by nature a pessimist.