“You mean——”
“I mean that I’ve got the goods on him!”
“You—you have evidence?”
“The best sort of evidence!”
“That will clear my father?”
“Perhaps not directly. Indirectly, yes. But it will smash Blake to smithereens!”
She was happy on Bruce’s account, on her father’s, on the city’s, but for the moment she was sick upon her own.
“Is the nature of the evidence a secret?”
“The whole town will know it this afternoon. I asked you over here to tell you first. I have just secured a full confession from two of Blake’s accomplices.”
“Then you’ve discovered Doctor Sherman?” she exclaimed.