“But—but weren’t the real men there at all?”

“Of course they were, but you passed them over.”

“And what will happen to them now?”

“They’ll be discharged for lack of evidence, that’s all. Bahram Khan will testify that they had been to Nalapur on an errand for him, and other witnesses will swear that they saw and spoke to them there, and we can say nothing.”

CHAPTER IX.
WOUNDED HERO AND MINISTERING ANGEL.

“‘Are we not halves of one dissevered world,

Whom this strange chance unites once more? Part? never!

Till thou, the lover, know; and I, the knower,

Love—’”

read Mabel, and paused, since it was evident that her auditor had some remark to make.