"So we were; but an uncle of my mother's recently returned from California, and it is he who has supplied me with the funds needed for my journey."
"Then he is wealthy?"
"I don't think so. He is employed in New York on a small salary, but he is liberal with the little he has. He has set his heart on clearing my father's reputation. It is he who sent me on my present mission."
"Does your father think that Albert Marlowe is the real thief?"
"He does. In fact, he is firmly convinced of it. Now, Mr. Harding, I have told you why I wanted to find you. You have as much as told me I am right in my suspicion. You are partly responsible for my poor father's undeserved sufferings. But for you he would never have been charged with the crime. Is it not so?"
"I admit it," Ralph Harding answered, slowly.
"Will you tell me who put the bond into my father's pocket?"
"I did."
"And who prompted you to do it?"