his hand empty.
He managed a mirthless, dreary laugh, a rattling sound that fell, dead
of any feeling, from his grimacing lips.

"No, by God!" he refused. "I'll give it to neither of you. I don't have
to!"

In that moment, he fell to pieces. With his thick shoulders dropping
forward, he became an inert mass bundled against the table edge. The
blood went out of his face, so that his cheeks hollowed, and shadows
formed under his eyes. He was like the victim of a quick consumption.

Crown's eyes were on Hastings.

"That's enough," the old man said shortly.

"Too much," agreed Crown. "Judge, there's no bail--on a murder charge."

"I'm very glad," Mrs. Brace commented, a terrible satisfaction in her
voice. "He pays me--at last."

In the music room Dr. Garnet had just given Lucille and Hastings a
favourable report on Berne Webster's condition.

"I should so like to tell him," she said, her glance entreating; "if
you'll let me! Wouldn't he get well much faster if he knew it--knew the
suspense was all over--that neither he nor father's suspected any more?"

"I think," the doctor gave his opinion with exaggerated deliberation,
"it might--in fact, it really will be his best medicine."

She thanked him, stars swimming in her eyes.

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