"You mean some rumor in connection with Roden Marsh?"
"Yes."
"Old Tyson, the turnpike keeper, did mumble something to me while he was counting out my change."
"Did he tell you that Roden gave himself up last night as being the murderer of--of you know whom?"
"It was something to that effect I gathered from Tyson."
"Oh, Felix, how coolly you take it! How can you--how can you?"
"Because, my dearest and best, I am absolutely sure that in Rodd's self accusation there is not the slightest grain of truth."
"Then you think that it is all a hallucination on his part? That he has brooded over the affair till at length he has come to believe that he himself is the criminal?"
"There can be no doubt that such is the case."
"What a weight you have lifted off my heart!"