"Yes; but the letters found on the body."
Ricordo laughed quietly.
"Did you say the body was identified? Was it recognisable?"
"No."
"Ah!"
"I was with him when he had given up all hope of ever winning Miss Castlemaine," said Winfield. "He was in a state of utter despair."
"A weak man might have committed suicide; but a strong man, who had made a vow like that—never!"
"You do not believe that Radford Leicester committed suicide?"
"I mean that such a man as you have described would rise again, even although he died."
Winfield shook his head, and sighed.