'Who was she, father?' asked Willie.
Those words spoke volumes to Jim Dennis.
He bent over and kissed the dead woman's forehead.
'An unfortunate woman I once knew well, Willie,' he said, and thought to himself, 'She died without letting him know; it was brave of her. May she be forgiven as freely as I forgive her.'
'Rodney Shaw is dead,' said Jim to the doctor.
Dr Tom looked at Jim and then at the dead woman. He fancied he had solved the problem of Jim Dennis's life, and he was not wrong.
CHAPTER XXVII
NEPTUNE'S SON
The trial of the Barker's Creek gang excited much interest, and it took place at Bathurst.
It is needless to go through the evidence given at the trial, as it merely recapitulated the events with which we are already familiar.