new then you would have had her
arrested, and let her know the shame of the man--her father."

"He is not her father," said Olga again.

"I know nothing about that," replied Dane, sitting down; "he always said
that he was her father, and I had no reason to believe otherwise. But I
am glad to hear that he is not. She is too good and pure to be the
daughter of such a man. I have known her for years. She is an angel. She
nursed me through an illness. I would do anything to prove my gratitude
for her sake. I held my hand from harming Denham because I thought he
was her father, and----"

"You need do so no longer," cried Ware, whose face was bright when he
heard this praise of Anne; "she is the daughter of George Franklin, of
Jamaica. Denham assumed the name to get the Powell money."

"Then," cried Dane, flinging wide his arms in a most dramatic manner,
"all I know you shall know. I turn King's evidence."

"The best way to save your own skin," said Steel dryly; "you are an
Irishman, are you not?"

Dane nodded. "Born in New York," said he.

"Humph!" murmured Steel, but so low that only Giles heard him, "all the
better. You would betray your own mother if it suited you."

Meanwhile Olga was speaking to the man. "The first thing you have to
confess," she said, "is about Miss Denham. Where is she?"

"With Mr. Morley."

Giles uttered an exclamation. "What has he got to do with her?"

"I don't know. He came up to town yesterday evening."

"About nine or ten?" asked Giles quickly. He remembered his feeling of
being watched at the Liverpool Street Station.

"Yes," assented Dane, "he came up to see me. He said that he had a
message for Miss Denham from her father. Of course I thought then that
Denham was really her father. I asked Morley why he did not deliver the
message himself, for he knew that Miss Denham had come to town with the
Princess Karacsay."

"How the deuce did he know that?" wondered Giles.

"Well, you see, sir, Mr. Morley was a detective at one time, and he
always finds out what he desires."

"True enough," put in Steel, "Joe Bart is very clever."

"He appears to have been extremely so in this case," said Giles dryly.

"Morley told me," continued Mark, "that Miss Denham knew he suspected
her of the murder, and she would not let him see her. If she knew he had
come to look her up that she would run away thinking he came to have her
arrested. He asked me to tell her to come to a rendezvous near the A