"Liz, that girl is a thief!"
"I know it! Her own father made a thief of her!"
"If it had not been in her naturally, he could never have done it! She would have died first! Do you think any one could ever have made a thief of me?"
"That was why Ben broke Dick's back; because the poor child refused to steal!"
"But Evelyn Chandler did not refuse, because I saw her do it! Liz, the only man who has ever stood my friend, the man to whom I owe a debt that never can be paid, is engaged to marry Evelyn Chandler, and I have sworn to save him. There is but one way to do it, and that is to prove her parentage, and the crime that she has committed! God knows if I could give my life and save Lynde Pyne, I had rather do it, but that would do no good! It would but insure the sacrifice."
"Lynde Pyne! Lynde Pyne, did you say?" asked Liz, in a whisper, leaning excitedly toward Leonie.
"Yes! What do you know of him?"
"Is not he the man who expected to be his uncle's heir, but his uncle left all his money to Luis Kingsley instead?"
"I don't know, but I think now that you mention it that I have heard something of that kind!"
"Yes, that is who it is! Ben knows where the will is that was made after the one that gave Luis Kingsley the money. It gives everything to Lynde Pyne! I have heard Ben and his daughter speak of it frequently. They had it planned that she was to marry Lynde Pyne, and then the will was to be produced. It makes him one of the wealthiest men in the state."