"Why have you thwarted me, Rodd?" he said.
"Because you would have made the most frightful mistake of your life; because there is no need of your sacrificing yourself for Gumley; because the real murderer has been discovered!"
Rodd got out all this in a breath and then dropped into a chair, panting from the haste with which he had come and the excitement which possessed him.
"The real murderer has been discovered!" Drelincourt gasped. "Then I----"
"Had nothing whatever to do with it, as Mrs. Jenwyn will tell you. She is here now, waiting impatiently to see you."
"But what has she----"
"That she will tell you herself. I will bring her at once;" And Rodd started up.
But Drelincourt laid a detaining hand on his shoulder.
"Wait," he said. "Give me a few moments. I can scarcely realize yet that--that I am not in another world."
It was ten minutes later that Mrs. Jenwyn and Drelincourt were left alone.