"You would have given enough of your time to the highwayman, Miss Scott, as would have enabled you to identify him for the police--and no more.

Like your brother, you would have been willing to sacrifice yourself for the benefit of the laws of civilization and good order." If a denial to this assertion could have been expressed without the use of speech, it was certainly transparent in the face and eyes of the young girl at that moment.

If Falkner had been less self-conscious he would have seen it plainly.

But Kate only buried her face in her lifted muff, slightly raised her pretty shoulders, and, dropping her tremulous eyelids, walked on.

"It seems a pity," she said, after a pause, "that we cannot preserve our own miserable existence without taking something from others--sometimes even a life!" He started.