"Not for me."
"Then I'll tell you where we can find the missing link of evidence."
"Where?"
"In the marriage register of the church. Find the names of the witnesses, and you'll find the people who have carried it through. If you'll kindly leave it in my hands, I'll verify my statements to-morrow morning. I'd prefer that you did not do it yourself."
"As you please. But even admitting you're right, it doesn't give the cause for the motive."
"Oh, yes, it does—Miss Fitzgerald's intervention in this matter was the price of Kingsland's egging you on to propose."
"Nonsense!"
"I'll lay you a thousand to one on it."
Stanley shrugged his shoulders, saying:—
"But your own arguments defeat you, my dear fellow. If Miss Fitzgerald was such a calculating person, why should she put herself out, and run the risk of compromising herself, merely to induce the Lieutenant to play upon my jealousy, when, as you've already shown, and I've admitted, I was so weak as to make such strategy unnecessary."