"Let them," retorted Brian, bitterly. "As soon as she is well enough we will marry at once, and leave Australia for ever."
"But—"
"I know her better than you do," said the young man, doggedly; "and I know she would like an end made of this whole miserable business at once. Arrest the murderer, and let him suffer for his crime."
"Well, I suppose it must be so," said Chinston, with a sigh, "but it seems very hard that this slur should be cast upon Miss Frettlby."
Brian turned a little pale.
"The sins of the father are generally visited upon the children by the world," he said bitterly. "But after the first pain is over, in new lands among new faces, she will forget the bitter past."
"Now that it is settled Moreland is to be arrested," said Calton, "how is it to be done? Is he still in Melbourne?"
"Rather," said Kilsip in a satisfied tone; "I've had my eye on him for the last two months, and someone is watching him for me now—trust me, he can't move two steps without my knowing it."
"Ah, indeed!" said Calton, quickly. "Then do you know if he has been to the bank and cashed that cheque for five thousand, which Frettlby gave him?"
"Well, now," observed Kilsip, after a pause, "do you know you rather startled me when you told me he had received a cheque for that amount."