"They brought him in and Durham came across to tell you. Will you——"
"No, no. Oh, no," she interrupted as she shuddered and hid her face in her hands.
Presently she raised her eyes to his.
"It is better so," she said. "They may find out now that he was innocent; they would have condemned him had he been taken alive."
He laid a hand on hers without speaking.
With a quick gesture she raised it to her lips.
"Oh, Fred, what a friend you have been to me!" she murmured.