This way, please." The door closed upon them none too soon.

For Mrs.Hale already felt the room whirling around her, and sank back into her chair with a hysterical laugh.

Old Mrs.Scott did not move from her seat, but, with her eyes fixed on the door, impatiently waited Kate's return.

Neither spoke, but each felt that the young, untried girl was equal to the emergency, and would get at the truth.
The sound of Thompson's feet in the hall and the closing of the front door was followed by Kate's reappearance.

Her face was still pale, but calm.
"Well ?" said the two women in a breath.
"Well," returned Kate slowly; "Mr.Lee and Mr.Falkner were undoubtedly the two men who took the paper from John's messenger and brought it here." "You are sure ?" said Mrs.Scott.
"There can be no mistake, mother." "THEN," said Mrs.Scott, with triumphant feminine logic, "I don't want anything more to satisfy me that they are PERFECTLY INNOCENT!" More convincing than the most perfect masculine deduction, this single expression of their common nature sent a thrill of sympathy and understanding through each.