The two young brides most willingly gave up their tours and consented to stay at home with their friends during the time of the trial.
The next morning, therefore, Mr. Lyle took his young wife and returned with her to the Wendover parsonage, where he comforted the soul of Alden Lytton by reporting to him all that had passed between himself and Emma.
"She keeps up bravely, heroically. She is worthy to be a hero's wife!" said the minister, warmly.
"She is—she is! She comes of a heroic race; therefore the deeper guilt of those who seek to bring dishonor upon her!" groaned Alden Lytton.
Then Mr. Lyle said:
"Her feminine intuition discovered what we men, with all our logic, would never have learned—that is to say, who it was that personated you at that false marriage."
"Indeed! Who was it?"
"Craven Kyte," answered Mr. Lyle.
And then he told Alden Lytton all that had been said between himself and Emma on that subject.
"I feel sure that her suspicions are correct," he added.